Medication Use Leading to Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults

By D. Budnitz, Nadine Shehab, S. Kegler, C. Richards. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

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Subfields: Family Practice, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Toxicology

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• Older patients in the emergency department: a review. (2010, background): “Most frequently implicated medications from these classes, accounting for one third of adverse-effect-induced ED visits, were warfarin, insulin, and digoxin.(58)”
• Use of Prescription and Over-the-counter Medications and Dietary Supplements Among Older Adults in the United States (2008, background): “One recent report estimated that US adults older than 65 years make more than 175 000 emergency department visits annually for adverse drug events; commonly prescribed medications accounted for one-third of these events.(33) Reassuringly, we found no cases of absolutely contraindicated drug-drug com”