Prevalence of hospitalisation caused by adverse drug reactions at an internal medicine ward of a single centre in Japan: a cross-sectional study.

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

Similar to other countries, one in every ten hospitalisations is caused by ADRs according to data from an internal medicine ward of a Japanese hospital. Most of these hospitalisations are preventable. Some efforts to minimise hospitalisations caused by ADRs are needed.

Keyphrases

adverse drug
electronic health record
risk factors
emergency department
physical activity
drug induced
big data
healthcare
data analysis
acute care