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Adverse Drug Reactions With Fatal Outcome

Completed
Conditions
Adverse Drug Reaction
Interventions
Drug: adverse drug reaction
Registration Number
NCT02838212
Lead Sponsor
Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of drug-related deaths in a university hospital during the year 2015

Detailed Description

The investigators aimed to determine the incidence of drug-related mortality of admitted patients in a university hospital during the year 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1135
Inclusion Criteria
  • inpatients deaths and drug-related deaths.
Exclusion Criteria
  • death patients in the emergency room, patients with a death diagnosis not available, and dead patients due to other causes non-drug related.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Drug-related deathsadverse drug reactionfatal adverse drug reactions
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence of drug-related deaths of all hospital admissionsduring the year 2015
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of drug-related deaths with autopsyduring the year 2015
Number of drug-related deaths with the suspected drug started the previous weekduring the year 2015
Number of drug-related deaths with drug interactions between suspected drugsduring the year 2015
Number of preventable drug-related deaths assessed by Schumock criteriaduring the year 2015
Number of drug-related deaths with polypharmacyduring the year 2015

Polypharmacy: when patient received \>10 drugs

Incidence of drug-related deaths of all inpatients deathsduring the year 2015.
Number of drug-related deaths in which the suspected drug had a contributive roleduring the year 2015
Number of drug-related deaths with "certain" or "probable" categories assessed by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria and Naranjo algorithmduring the year 2015
Risk factors of drug-related deathsduring the year 2015

risk factors assessed: age, sex, Charlson score, and hospitalization length

Number of drug-related deaths presented during hospitalizationduring the year 2015
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