[Hospital readmission induced by adverse drug reaction: a pilot study in a post-emergency unit of a French university hospital].

Purpose: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) leading to hospital admission was estimated to 3.6 to 21.7%.

Which adverse events are related to health care during hospitalization in elderly inpatients?

Background: Adverse events result in longer hospital stays and increase costs and mortality. We aimed to assess incidence of adverse events occurring during hospitalization in a post-emergency unit and to describe their characteristics.

Methods: All adverse events occurring in patients during their hospitalization in a post-emergency unit in a French university hospital (20 beds) were systematically and consecutively recorded from September 2009 to February 2011.

Heat-related illnesses during the 2003 heat wave in an emergency service.

Introduction: This study describes patients admitted to an urban emergency service in France during the 2003 heat wave. Patients with heat-related illnesses were studied and comparison was made between those who died and survivors.

Methods: A retrospective study of about 760 records concerning 726 patients aged over 65 years admitted during August 2003 to a French emergency department.