The prevalence of drug-related problems causing or contributing to admission to a clinic of internal medicine is high and is dominated by type A reactions, i.e. reactions in principle predictable and preventable. This implies a possibility to increase drug safety by preventive measures.
Conclusions: The overall ADR reporting by nurses after the legislative amendment did not appear to increase after the change in thereporting legislation. The proportion of serious and/or unlabelled ADR reports fromreported by nurses did however appear to increase during the same period. Taken together our data suggests that fFurther pro-active measures actions should be considered in order to involve nurses in nurses more effectively in the reporting of 2 suspected ADRs.
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