Interpreting adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports as hospital patient safety incidents.

Emma C. Davies; Christopher F. Green; David R. Mottram; Munir Pirmohamed

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Interpreting adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports as hospital patient safety incidents.

August 11, 2010

Davies EC, Green CF, Mottram DR, et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2010;70(1):102-8.

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Nearly all of the adverse drug events identified by the United Kingdom's National Patient Safety Agency system caused minimal harm to patients.

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