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Emergency Department Visits for Antibiotic‐Associated Adverse Events
Author(s) -
Nadine Shehab,
Priti R. Patel,
Arjun Srinivasan,
Daniel S. Budnitz
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/591126
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , medical prescription , ambulatory , adverse effect , ambulatory care , emergency medicine , pediatrics , health care , pharmacology , psychiatry , economics , economic growth
Drug-related adverse events are an under-appreciated consequence of antibiotic use, and the national magnitude and scope of these events have not been studied. Our objective was to estimate and compare the numbers and rates of emergency department (ED) visits for drug-related adverse events associated with systemic antibiotics in the United States by drug class, individual drug, and event type.

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