Antibiotics and Adverse Events: Doctors, Do No Harm!

Antibiotics and Adverse Events: Doctors, Do No Harm!

Watkins Richard R

Hospital Medicine Alert

2017

2017-12

A retrospective study found that among 1,488 hospitalized patients who received an antibiotic, 298 (20%) experienced at least one antibiotic-associated adverse drug event. Furthermore, 287 (19%) of the antibiotic regimens were not clinically indicated, and 56 (20%) of these were associated with an adverse drug event.

Length of Stay; Patient Safety; Internal Medicine; Clostridium Infections; Adverse Drug Event; Drug Toxicity; Pruritus; Medical Practice; Evidence-Based; Antibiotics – Therapeutic Use; Antibiotics – Administration and Dosage; Antibiotics – Adverse Effects; Clostridium Infections – Etiology; Hospitalization – Statistics and Numerical Data; Adverse Drug Event – Classification; Adverse Drug Event – Etiology; Adverse Drug Event – Risk Factors; Anaphylaxis – Risk Factors

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