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      Terminologia de incidentes com medicamentos no contexto hospitalar Translated title: Terminology for drug incidents in the hospital context

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          Incidentes com medicamentos geram problemas aos pacientes e custos adicionais ao sistema de saúde. A variedade de termos utilizada para comunicá-los propicia divergências nos resultados de pesquisas e confundem notificadores. Objetivou-se revisar os termos utilizados para descrever estes incidentes confrontando-os com as conceituações/definições oficiais disponíveis. Pesquisaram-se as bases PubMed, MEDLINE, IPA e LILACS para selecionar estudos publicados entre janeiro de 1990 e dezembro de 2005. Selecionaram-se 33 publicações. Verificou-se que a terminologia supranacional recomendada para descrever incidentes com medicamentos é insuficiente, mas que há consenso de uso das expressões em função do gênero do incidente. O termo Reação Adversa a Medicamento é mais utilizado quando não se verifica intencionalidade. A expressão Evento Adverso a Medicamento foi mais usada quando se descreviam incidentes durante a hospitalização; e Problema Relacionado a Medicamento foi mais utilizada em estudos que avaliaram atenção/cuidados farmacêuticos (uso/falta do medicamento). Ainda assim, a linha divisória entre essas três categorias não é clara e simples. Futuros estudos das relações entre as categorias e investigações multidisciplinares sobre erro humano podem subsidiar a proposição de novas conceituações.

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          In-hospital drug incidents cause problems for patients and additional costs for the health system. The variety of terms used to report them leads to disparities in research results and confuses the professionals that report them. This study aimed to review the terms used to describe drug incidents by collating them with the official concepts and definitions. PubMed, MEDLINE, IPA, and LILACS were searched to select studies published from January 1990 to December 2005. Thirty-three publications were selected. The supranational terminology recommended for describing drug incidents proved insufficient, but there was consensus that the expressions are used as a function of the type of incident. Adverse drug reaction is used when no intent is identified. Adverse drug event mainly describes incidents during hospitalization, and drug-related problem is used in studies on pharmaceutical care (use or lack of the drug). Still, the division between these categories is neither clear nor simple. Future studies on the relations between categories and multidisciplinary research on human error could support proposals for new concepts.

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          Adverse drug events in ambulatory care.

          Adverse events related to drugs occur frequently among inpatients, and many of these events are preventable. However, few data are available on adverse drug events among outpatients. We conducted a study to determine the rates, types, severity, and preventability of such events among outpatients and to identify preventive strategies. We performed a prospective cohort study, including a survey of patients and a chart review, at four adult primary care practices in Boston (two hospital-based and two community-based), involving a total of 1202 outpatients who received at least one prescription during a four-week period. Prescriptions were computerized at two of the practices and handwritten at the other two. Of the 661 patients who responded to the survey (response rate, 55 percent), 162 had adverse drug events (25 percent; 95 percent confidence interval, 20 to 29 percent), with a total of 181 events (27 per 100 patients). Twenty-four of the events (13 percent) were serious, 51 (28 percent) were ameliorable, and 20 (11 percent) were preventable. Of the 51 ameliorable events, 32 (63 percent) were attributed to the physician's failure to respond to medication-related symptoms and 19 (37 percent) to the patient's failure to inform the physician of the symptoms. The medication classes most frequently involved in adverse drug events were selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (10 percent), beta-blockers (9 percent), angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (8 percent), and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents (8 percent). On multivariate analysis, only the number of medications taken was significantly associated with adverse events. Adverse events related to drugs are common in primary care, and many are preventable or ameliorable. Monitoring for and acting on symptoms are important. Improving communication between outpatients and providers may help prevent adverse events related to drugs. Copyright 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society
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              Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events.

              To evaluate the frequency of medication errors using a multidisciplinary approach, to classify these errors by type, and to determine how often medication errors are associated with adverse drug events (ADEs) and potential ADEs. Medication errors were detected using self-report by pharmacists, nurse review of all patient charts, and review of all medication sheets. Incidents that were thought to represent ADEs or potential ADEs were identified through spontaneous reporting from nursing or pharmacy personnel, solicited reporting from nurses, and daily chart review by the study nurse. Incidents were subsequently classified by two independent reviewers as ADEs or potential ADEs. Three medical units at an urban tertiary care hospital. A cohort of 379 consecutive admissions during a 51-day period (1,704 patient-days). None. Over the study period, 10,070 medication orders were written, and 530 medications errors were identified (5.3 errors/100 orders), for a mean of 0.3 medication errors per patient-day, or 1.4 per admission. Of the medication errors, 53% involved at least one missing dose of a medication; 15% involved other dose errors, 8% frequency errors, and 5% route errors. During the same period, 25 ADEs and 35 potential ADEs were found. Of the 25 ADEs, five (20%) were associated with medication errors; all were judged preventable. Thus, five of 530 medication errors (0.9%) resulted in ADEs. Physician computer order entry could have prevented 84% of non-missing dose medication errors, 86% of potential ADEs, and 60% of preventable ADEs. Medication errors are common, although relatively few result in ADEs. However, those that do are preventable, many through physician computer order entry.
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                Cadernos de Saúde Pública
                Cad. Saúde Pública
                Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0102-311X
                1678-4464
                September 2008
                : 24
                : 9
                : 1965-1975
                Affiliations
                [01] Maringá Paraná orgnameUniversidade Estadual de Maringá orgdiv1Hospital Universitário Regional de Maringá Brazil
                [02] São Paulo orgnameUniversidade de São Paulo orgdiv1Faculdade de Saúde Pública Brasil
                [03] Guaratinguetá orgnameUniversidade Estadual Paulista orgdiv1Faculdade de Engenharia de Guaratinguetá Brasil
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                S0102-311X2008000900002 S0102-311X(08)02400902
                10.1590/S0102-311X2008000900002
                46c1226f-5afc-433b-b60d-406733609783

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 01 July 2008
                : 13 February 2008
                : 24 June 2008
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                Erros de Medicação,Preparações Farmacêuticas,Relações Medicamentosas,Medication Errors,Pharmaceutical Preparations,Drugs Relations

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