Prevalence and perceived preventability of self-reported adverse drug events--a population-based survey of 7099 adults.

PURPOSE: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are common and often preventable among inpatients, but self-reported ADEs have not been investigated in a representative sample of the general public. The objectives of this study were to estimate the 1-month prevalence of self-reported ADEs among the adult genera...

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Main Authors: Katja Marja Hakkarainen, Karolina Andersson Sundell, Max Petzold, Staffan Hägg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3762841?pdf=render