378 International comparisons of drug-related deaths

International drug price comparisons: quality assessment.

OBJECTIVE To quantitatively summarize results (i.e., prices and affordability) reported from international drug price comparison studies and assess their methodological quality. METHODS A systematic search of the most relevant databases-Medline, Embase, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), and Scopus, from their inception to May 2009-was conducted to identify original research compar...

Involvement of codeine in drug-related deaths.

The incidence and role of codeine in drug-related deaths in Victoria was investigated over a 5-year period. There were a total of 107 cases involving codeine, representing 8.8% of all drug-related deaths in this period in Victoria. There were only six fatalities in which codeine was considered the major poison. The mean (+/- SD) concentration of codeine in femoral blood was 4.0 +/- 2.3 mg/L (ra...

An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016)

Drug Related Deaths in Tehran, Iran: Toxicological, Death and Crime Scene Investigations

Background: To determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. Methods: Toxicological analysi...

Drug-related deaths in a department of internal medicine.

BACKGROUND Drug therapy is associated with adverse effects, and fatal adverse drug events (ADEs) have become major hospital problems. Our study assesses the incidence of fatal ADEs in a major medical department and identifies possible patient characteristics signifying fatal ADE risk. METHODS During a 2-year period, a multidisciplinary study group examined all 732 patients who died--5.2% of t...