Recognition of adverse drug events in older hospitalized medical patients

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-85

  Klopotowska, Joanna E ^a   Wierenga, Peter C ^a,b   Smorenburg, Susanne M ^a   Stuijt, Clementine C M ^a   Arisz, Lambertus ^a   Kuks, Paul F M ^a   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W ^a   Lie A Huen, Loraine ^a   De Rooij, Sophia E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DEVENTER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adverse drug events; Elderly; Hospital; Medication safety

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA PROTECTIVE AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IRON; LAXATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MONITORING; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOMNOLENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 84872333400     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: 14321041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-012-1316-4     Document Type: Review

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