Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.

Terry Field; Jerry H Gurwitz; Leslie R Harrold; Jeffrey M Rothschild; Kristin DeBellis; Andrew C Seger; Leslie S Fish; Lawrence Garber; Michael Kelleher; David W Bates

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Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.

March 6, 2005

Field T, Gurwitz JH, Harrold LR, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004;11(6):492-8.

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This study used multiple methods to detect adverse drug events (ADEs) in ambulatory patients. Most of the ADEs were found through electronic or computerized methods, rather than by voluntary reporting.

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