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SynthesisEuropean journal of clinical pharmacology2018

Mortality among patients due to adverse drug reactions that lead to hospitalization: a meta-analysis.

Tejas K Patel, Parvati B Patel

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Synthesis in European journal of clinical pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
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36citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Drug-related deaths among inpatients: a meta-analysis.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022
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  11. Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting: potential facilitators perceived by community pharmacists in Egypt - a cross-sectional study.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tejas K PatelDepartment of Pharmacology, GMERS Medical College, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390021, India. dr.tkp2006@yahoo.co.in.
Parvati B PatelDepartment of Pharmacology, GMERS Medical College, Gotri, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390021, India.
Sir Sayajirao General Hospital Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of mortality among patients due to adverse drug reactions that lead to hospitalisation (fatal ADR

methodsWe identified prospective ADR

resultsAmong 312 full-text articles assessed, 49 studies satisfied the selection criteria and were included in the analysis. The mean prevalence of fatal ADR

conclusionsADR

Indexed as

BiasDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsHospitalizationHumansPrevalenceAdverse drug reactionCausative drugsFatal reactionHospitalMeta-analysisPrevalence

Identifiers

PMID29556685
OpenAlexW2792172350

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