Belatacept and Autoimmune Adverse Events

Combined Leucopenia and Thrombocytopenia Are Possibly Adverse Events of Lamotrigine

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Adverse events and preventable adverse events in children.

CONTEXT Patient safety has been recognized as an important problem in health care. However, knowledge about adverse events and preventable adverse events in children is relatively limited. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and types of adverse events and preventable adverse events in children. DESIGN Analysis of pediatric hospitalizations in the Colorado and Utah Medical Practice Study, w...

ADVERSE EVENTS Surveillance Systems for Adverse Events and Medical Errors

Hospital workload and adverse events.

CONTEXT Hospitals are under pressure to increase revenue and lower costs, and at the same time, they face dramatic variation in clinical demand. OBJECTIVE : We sought to determine the relationship between peak hospital workload and rates of adverse events (AEs). METHODS A random sample of 24,676 adult patients discharged from the medical/surgical services at 4 US hospitals (2 urban and 2 su...

Exenatide and rare adverse events.

n engl j med 358;18 www.nejm.org may 1, 2008 1969 Editor’s note: We received 1610 responses, from 85 countries, for this medical mystery. Sixty-two percent of respondents were physicians in practice, 21% were physicians in training, and 12% were medical students. Of the respondents, 65% identified some type of diaphragmatic hernia on the radiograph, which revealed a retrocardiac gastric shadow ...