Medication Use Leading to Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults: Budnitz DS, Shehab N, Kegler SR, et al. Ann Intern Med 2007;147:755–65

Abstract

This study was an analysis of data compiled from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance (NEISS-CADES), National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). It attempted to estimate the number of Emergency Department (ED) visits for adverse drug events involving medications that by consensus have been deemed potentially inappropriate for use in elderly patients (Beers criteria) compared with other medications.