TY - GEN
T1 - Medications related emergency admissions
T2 - International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare
AU - Aldardeer, Namareq
AU - Benslimane, Nabila
AU - Khalifa, Mohamed
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Adverse drug events could require a patient to visit the emergency department, many of these visits lead to hospital admissions. A retrospective study, October 2015 to March 2016, examined the severity and factors contributing to medications related emergency visits leading to admissions at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Out of 698 reviewed patients, 92 were medications related admissions. Adverse drug reactions were the primary cause (46.7%), drug prescribing (30.4%), compliance (14.1%), and drug dosing (8.7%). The majority of cases were of moderate severity (82.6%). Most medications involved in emergency admissions were antihypertensive (18.4%), chemotherapy (17.4%), anticoagulant (15.2%), and anti-diabetics (12%). Emergency admissions secondary to medication could be minimized whenever the causes of problems are identified. Motivating physicians to apply shared decision making strategy during prescribing and involving pharmacists in emergency and ambulatory care setting is highly important and to educate patients and support healthcare providers in making best medications related decisions.
AB - Adverse drug events could require a patient to visit the emergency department, many of these visits lead to hospital admissions. A retrospective study, October 2015 to March 2016, examined the severity and factors contributing to medications related emergency visits leading to admissions at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Out of 698 reviewed patients, 92 were medications related admissions. Adverse drug reactions were the primary cause (46.7%), drug prescribing (30.4%), compliance (14.1%), and drug dosing (8.7%). The majority of cases were of moderate severity (82.6%). Most medications involved in emergency admissions were antihypertensive (18.4%), chemotherapy (17.4%), anticoagulant (15.2%), and anti-diabetics (12%). Emergency admissions secondary to medication could be minimized whenever the causes of problems are identified. Motivating physicians to apply shared decision making strategy during prescribing and involving pharmacists in emergency and ambulatory care setting is highly important and to educate patients and support healthcare providers in making best medications related decisions.
KW - Admissions
KW - Adverse Drug Events
KW - Emergency Visits
KW - Hospitals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85022221764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-781-8-169
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-781-8-169
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022221764
SN - 9781614997801
VL - 238
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 169
EP - 172
BT - Informatics empowers healthcare transformation
A2 - Mantas, John
A2 - Hasman, Arie
A2 - Gallos, Parisis
A2 - Househ, Mowafa S.
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 7 July 2017 through 9 July 2017
ER -