ReviewDer Internist2003
[Incidence and prevention of lethal undesirable drug effects].
Review in Der Internist, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
- [Is there an improvement of drug safety in Germany in recent years?].Der Internist · 2009Pooled it
- Validation of a mobile app for reducing errors of administration of medications in an emergency.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2019Trial
- Optimizing polypharmacy among elderly hospital patients with chronic diseases--study protocol of the cluster randomized controlled POLITE-RCT trial.Implementation science : IS · 2014Trial
- Intervention skills - a neglected field of research in medical education and beyond.GMS journal for medical education · 2024Article
- Strategies for Avoiding Typical Drug-Drug Interactions and Drug-Related Problems in Patients with Vascular Diseases.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- [Practical limitations of medical clarification and informed consent in the context of drug therapy].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2022Article
- [Validation of interaction databases in psychopharmacotherapy].Der Nervenarzt · 2018Article
- [Errors in medicine. Causes, impact and improvement measures to improve patient safety].Der Anaesthesist · 2015Review
- GraphSAW: a web-based system for graphical analysis of drug interactions and side effects using pharmaceutical and molecular data.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2015Article
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- [What is the meaning of safety in hospitals?].Der Unfallchirurg · 2013Article
- Comparative evaluation of different medication safety measures for the emergency department: physicians' usage and acceptance of training, poster, checklist and computerized decision support.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2013Article
- Polypharmacy in the elderly from the clinical toxicologist perspective.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2012Article
- [Multiple drug therapy - a challenge for an aging society].Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2010Article
- [Risks associated with drug therapy. What do patients need to know? What can they do].Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) · 2009Article
- Pregraduate teaching clinical pharmacology in Germany.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2004Article
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Abstract
About every second decision of a medical doctor concerns drug therapy. On the basis of a representative Norwegian study, which analyzed fatal drug reactions in stationary patients of internal medicine wards by autopsy and plasma drug concentrations, in Germany 58,000 fatalities are occurring in this patient population. The treating physicians classified only 6% of drug induced fatalities as such. Therefore, the risk of drug therapy is grossly underestimated. In half of the cases medication errors were causative and therefore these could potentially all be avoided. In addition to improved pre- and postgraduate education in clinical pharmacology the use of computer-based expert systems would be a decisive step to optimize drug therapy.
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