What is it about?
Our objective was to determine the proportion of adverse drug events to outpatient medications diagnosed at the point-of-care in EDs.
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Why is it important?
Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug events for post-market surveillance, and to conduct research in patient safety and in drug safety and effectiveness.
Perspectives
Administrative health records have not been evaluated for their completeness with regard to adverse drug event reporting.
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Evaluating adverse drug event reporting in administrative data from emergency departments: a validation study, BMC Health Services Research, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-473.
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