Learn, recognise and prevent adverse drug reactions/events in elderly hospitalised patients

Commentary on: Jennings ELM, Murphy KD, Gallagher P, O'Mahony D. In-hospital adverse drug reactions in older adults; prevalence, presentation and associated drugs-a systematic review and meta-analysis. Age Ageing. 2020;49(6):948–958. doi:10.1093/ageing/afaa188 Implications for practice and research Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are highly prevalent in hospitalised older patients, caused by commonly used drugs and present as clinical scenarios seen in daily clinical practice. Future research should focus on standardisation of ADR ascertainment and assessment, hopefully leading to reporting of patient-related health outcomes. Context WHO defines an adverse drug reaction (ADR) as a response to a medicine which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man and adverse drug event or experience (ADEs) as any untoward medical occurrence that may present during treatment with a medicine but which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.1 ADRs and...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Care of the older person Commentary Source Type: research