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US emergency department visits attributed to medication harms, 2017-2019.
October 20, 2021
Budnitz DS, Shehab N, Lovegrove MC, et al. JAMA. 2021;326(13):1299.
Previous studies have utilized data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance Project (NEISS) to analyze harms from medication use. This study uses updated NEISS data to also describe harms from nontherapeutic medication use. Visits to emergency departments for medication adverse events varied by age group, medication class, and intent of use.
