Importance Assessing the scope of acute medication harms to patients should include both
therapeutic and nontherapeutic medication use. Objective To describe the characteristics of …

Importance The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 brought attention to
adverse drug events in national patient safety efforts. Updated, detailed, nationally …

ContextAdverse drug events are common and often preventable causes of medical injuries.
However, timely, nationally representative information on outpatient adverse drug events is …

Importance In 2011, an estimated 26.8 million US adults used prescription medications for
mental illness. Objective To estimate the numbers and rates of adverse drug event (ADE) …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: This project demonstrates the operational feasibility and epidemiologic
usefulness of modifying a national injury surveillance system for active surveillance of …

Background Adverse drug events are important preventable causes of hospitalization in
older adults. However, nationally representative data on adverse drug events that result in …

Background: Medication-related visits to the emergency department are an important but
poorly understood phenomenon. We sought to evaluate the frequency, severity and …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Adverse drug events represent the most common cause of preventable
nonsurgical adverse events in medicine but may remain undetected. Our objective is to …

Abstract Purpose Adverse drug events (ADEs) represent medication‐related patient harm,
which is associated with significant patient morbidity and mortality. This study was …

Background Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department
presentations. Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse …