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Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and...

Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and...

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Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and main features

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Full title

Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and main features

Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Journal title

European journal of clinical pharmacology, 2016-02, Vol.72 (2), p.219-226

Language

English

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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Contents

Purpose
To assess the prevalence of urgent hospitalization due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in patients aged ≥65 years, to compare the in-hospital mortality rates between patients admitted for ADRs and those admitted for other causes, and to describe the ADRs, the used and suspected drugs, and the drug-reaction associations.
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Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and main features

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1760927730

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1760927730

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ISSN

0031-6970

E-ISSN

1432-1041

DOI

10.1007/s00228-015-1974-0

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