Adverse drug event reporting in intensive care units: a survey of current practices.

Sandra L Kane-Gill; John W Devlin

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Adverse drug event reporting in intensive care units: a survey of current practices.

August 2, 2006

Kane-Gill SL, Devlin JW. Ann Pharmacother. 2006;40(7-8):1267-73.

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The authors compared the identification, reporting, and evaluation of adverse drug events in intensive care units (ICU) and non-ICU areas and found that ICU incident data were rarely tracked.

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