US Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Medication Harms, 2017-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Assessing the scope of acute medication harms to patients should include both therapeutic and nontherapeutic medication use.

Objective

To describe the characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits for acute harms from both therapeutic and nontherapeutic medication use in the US.

Design, setting, and participants

Active, nationally representative, public health surveillance based on patient visits to 60 EDs in the US participating in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance Project from 2017 through 2019.

Exposures

Medications implicated in ED visits, with visits attributed to medication harms (adverse events) based on the clinicians' diagnoses and supporting data documented in the medical re

SUBMITTER: Budnitz DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493432 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature