Emergency department visits by adults for psychiatric medication adverse events.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In 2011, an estimated 26.8 million US adults used prescription medications for mental illness.

Objective

To estimate the numbers and rates of adverse drug event (ADE) emergency department (ED) visits involving psychiatric medications among US adults between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2011.

Design and setting

Descriptive analyses of active, nationally representative surveillance of ADE ED visits using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance system and of drug prescribing during outpatient visits using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Participants

Medical records from national probability samples of ED and outpatient visits

SUBMITTER: Hampton LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4703317 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature