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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2014

Adverse drug events with hyperkalaemia during inpatient stays: evaluation of an automated method for retrospective detection in hospital databases.

Grégoire Ficheur, Emmanuel Chazard, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Béatrice Merlin, Michel Luyckx, Régis Beuscart

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Grégoire FicheurDepartment of Public Health, EA 2694, University of Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France. gregoire.ficheur@univ-lille2.fr.
Emmanuel Chazard
Jean-Baptiste Beuscart
Béatrice Merlin
Michel Luyckx
Régis Beuscart

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backgroundAdverse drug reactions and adverse drug events (ADEs) are major public health issues. Many different prospective tools for the automated detection of ADEs in hospital databases have been developed and evaluated. The objective of the present study was to evaluate an automated method for the retrospective detection of ADEs with hyperkalaemia during inpatient stays.

methodsWe used a set of complex detection rules to take account of the patient's clinical and biological context and the chronological relationship between the causes and the expected outcome. The dataset consisted of 3,444 inpatient stays in a French general hospital. An automated review was performed for all data and the results were compared with those of an expert chart review. The complex detection rules' analytical quality was evaluated for ADEs.

resultsIn terms of recall, 89.5% of ADEs with hyperkalaemia "with or without an abnormal symptom" were automatically identified (including all three serious ADEs). In terms of precision, 63.7% of the automatically identified ADEs with hyperkalaemia were true ADEs.

conclusionsThe use of context-sensitive rules appears to improve the automated detection of ADEs with hyperkalaemia. This type of tool may have an important role in pharmacoepidemiology via the routine analysis of large inter-hospital databases.

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Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsAdverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsAgedDatabases, FactualElectronic Health RecordsFemaleHospitalsHumansHyperkalemiaMaleMedical Informatics Computing

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PMCPMC4164763

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