Open AccessMonitoring of incidence, severity, and causality of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease
Author(s) -
Simran Kaur,
Vinod Kapoor,
Rajiv Mahajan,
Mohan Lal,
Seema Gupta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.75661
Subject(s) - medicine , polypharmacy , observational study , incidence (geometry) , drug reaction , inclusion and exclusion criteria , adverse drug reaction , drug , emergency medicine , disease , prospective cohort study , causality (physics) , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , pharmacology , alternative medicine , pathology , physics , optics , quantum mechanics
Patients admitted to cardiology department are mostly on polypharmacy. So drug-drug interactions and adverse effects of drugs are quite common. Yet, there is a paucity of data regarding adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring in cardiology department in India. The present study is an effort to fill up these lacunae.