Fatal adverse drug events: the paradox of drug treatment
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179 Many countries run schemes which encourage physicians and other health care professionals to report suspected drug reactions (ADRs). The aims of these spontaneous reporting schemes (SRSs) are to identify previously unsuspected reactions, to elucidate the relevant risk factors, and to evaluate the comparative toxicity of drugs within the same therapeutic class [1,2]. By their nature these sc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0954-6820
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2001.00892.x