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Drug‐Induced Parenchymal Renal Disease in Outpatients
Author(s) -
Beard Keith,
Perera David R.,
Jick Hershel
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.92
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1552-4604
pISSN - 0091-2700
DOI - 10.1002/j.1552-4604.1988.tb05755.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , etiology , drug , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , pharmacology
Hospitalizations for patients with newly diagnosed renal disease were reviewed for the period 1972 to 1983 at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound to identify those instances where the renal disease might have been caused by a drug(s). After careful review of 496 admissions, only nine instances were found in which a drug etiology of the renal disease could not be safely ruled out on a case history basis. From this study, it is estimated that the frequency of newly diagnosed, outpatient drug‐induced renal disease requiring hospitalization is rare, on the order of one per 300,000 persons per year.