Adverse Drug Reactions as Cause of Hospital Admissions: Results from the Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA) - Concepedia

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Adverse Drug Reactions as Cause of Hospital Admissions: Results from the Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA)

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Graziano Onder, Claudio Pedone, Francesco Landi, Matteo Cesari, Cecilia Della Vedova, Roberto Bernabei, Giovanni Gambassi

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Abstract

The most important determinant of risk for ADR-related hospital admissions in older patients is number of drugs being taken. When considering only severe ADRs, risk is also related to age and frailty.

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