STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency, severity, preventability, and classification of adverse drug events resulting in hospitalization, and to identify any patient, prescriber, drug, and system factors associated with these events. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. SETTING Internal medicine service of a large tertiary care hospital in Canada. PATIENTS A total of 565 consecut...

BACKGROUND Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection are common causes of lower respiratory tract illness. Data on their burden in low and middle-income settings and from Africa are scarce. We aimed to estimate age-specific rates of hospitalization attributable to influenza and RSV among patients attending private hospitals in South Africa during 2007-2012. METHODS We estimate...

INTRODUCTION During the 2009 influenza H1N1virus pandemic, health-care workers were exposed to elevated risk of infection. The aim of this study was to estimate the risk for severe acute respiratory disease (SARD) in this population during the pandemic period in Argentina. METHODOLOGY we conducted a retrospective survey in which all members of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases were...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are now recognized as an important cause of hospital admissions, with a proportion ranging from 0.9-7.9%. They also constitute a significant economic burden. We thus aimed at determining the prevalence and the economic burden of ADRs presenting to Medical Emergency Department (ED) of a tertiary referral center in India METHODS A prospective, observatio...

Substance abuse is an important health, psychological and social problem in the world. Gabapentin is a new antiepileptic drug. It is used in neurological and psychiatric disorders. Moreover the effects of gabapentin on increasing the analgesic effect of morphine and its inhibitory effects on dopamine release due to morphine in animal models have been proved. In the present study, the effect of ...

substance abuse is an important health, psychological and social problem in the world. gabapentin is a new antiepileptic drug. it is used in neurological and psychiatric disorders. moreover the effects of gabapentin on increasing the analgesic effect of morphine and its inhibitory effects on dopamine release due to morphine in animal models have been proved. in the present study, the effect of ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of universal mass vaccination (UMV) against rotavirus (RV) on the hospitalization rates, nosocomial RV infections and RV-gastroenteritis (GE)-associated secondary blood stream infections (BSI). METHODS The retrospective evaluation (2002-2009) by chart analysis included all clinically diagnosed and microbiologically confirmed RV-GE ca...

background ocular trauma is a significant health problem in pediatric patients. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of ocular-trauma-related hospitalization of children in kashan. patients and methods this descriptive, cross-sectional study included 131 children aged less than 16 years with ocular trauma, who were admitted to the matini hospital at the kashan uni...

extract: sever coughs of the little zahra who has 8 months old informed you even before that her parents inter to the ward. zahra's developmental needs in terms of emotional, physical and social will required a detailed cares in her hospitalization period. but at this time her breathing problem may attracted your attention. needs and differences of the mentioned infant explain below. zahra...

asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses in childhood with an increased rate of hospitalization. in order to detemine the considerable factors for hospitalization of asthmatic children in our patients, we carried out a retrospective study of children with asthma who were admitted to children medical center affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences over a 3 year period ( 1993...