Drug related hospital admissions. Results from an intervention program.

As part of a high-intensity monitoring study of drug events as the cause of admission to departments of internal medicine, the effect of an educational intervention programme was studied. Two departments were included, one specialising in geriatrics and one that received patients by non-selected referral. The series consisted of 607 consecutive admissions studied before and 703 after the intervention.

Drug related admissions to medical wards: a population based survey.

1. In total 1999 consecutive admissions to six medical wards were subjected to a prospective high-intensity drug event monitoring scheme to assess the extent and pattern of admissions caused by adverse drug reactions (ADRs) or dose related therapeutic failures (TF), in a population-based design. The wards were sub-specialised in general medicine, geriatrics, endocrinology, cardiology, respiratory medicine and gastroenterology.

Drug related events and drug utilization in patients admitted to a geriatric hospital department.

Two hundred ninety-four consecutive admissions to a geriatric department were evaluated for drug events as cause of admission. The drug events considered were adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and dose-related therapeutic failures. In 39 cases (13.