Recognition of adverse drug events in older hospitalized medical patients.

Joanna E. Klopotowska; Peter C. Wierenga; Susanne M. Smorenburg; Clementine C M Stuijt; Lambertus Arisz; Paul F M Kuks; Marcel G W Dijkgraaf; Loraine Lie-A-Huen; Sophia E. de Rooij; WINGS study group

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Recognition of adverse drug events in older hospitalized medical patients.

July 11, 2012

Klopotowska JE, Wierenga PC, Smorenburg SM, et al. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2013;69(1):75-85.

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Medical teams were generally able to recognize serious adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospitalized patients, but were less consistent in identifying ADEs with more subtle symptoms or those resulting only in abnormal laboratory test results.

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