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Incidence, characteristics and risk factors of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized children - a prospective observational cohort study of 6,601 admissions

Thiesen, S; Conroy, EJ; Bellis, JR; Bracken, LE; Mannix, HL; Bird, KA; Duncan, JC; ... Smyth, RL; + view all (2013) Incidence, characteristics and risk factors of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized children - a prospective observational cohort study of 6,601 admissions. BMC Medicine , 11 , Article 237. 10.1186/1741-7015-11-237. Green open access

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Abstract

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are an important cause of harm in children. Current data are incomplete due to methodological differences between studies: only half of all studies provide drug data, incidence rates vary (0.6% to 16.8%) and very few studies provide data on causality, severity and risk factors of pediatric ADRs. We aimed to determine the incidence of ADRs in hospitalized children, to characterize these ADRs in terms of type, drug etiology, causality and severity and to identify risk factors.

Type: Article
Title: Incidence, characteristics and risk factors of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized children - a prospective observational cohort study of 6,601 admissions
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-237
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-237
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 Thiesen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Adverse drug reactions, Drug safety, Hospitalized children, Risk factors, General anesthesia, Peri- and post-operative pain management
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1414833
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