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adverse drug reaction

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adverse drug reaction

Unwanted and unexpected response to any therapeutic agent, including drugs, contrast media (used to improve organ definition for X-rays), intrauterine devices (IUDs) and materials used in surgery.
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This can be compared with data from the Australian Incident Monitoring System showing that most medication incidents occurring in hospital were categorised as omissions (>25%), overdoses (20%), wrong medicines (10%), drug of addiction discrepancy (<5%), incorrect labelling (<5%) or an adverse drug reaction (<5%).
Strategies to reduce medication errors with reference to older adults by Australian Nursing Journal
Some researchers (24,25) also have cited fatigue as an adverse drug reaction.
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Supplemental injury and external cause codes assigned during cause-of-death coding differentiate radiation and toxic gastroenteritis, as well as gastroenteritis attributable to adverse drug reactions (19).
Deaths due to unknown foodborne agents by Frenzen, Paul D. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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