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adverse drug reaction,

n a detrimental outcome from a drug. Two types of ADRs exist: Type 1 results from dosage mismatch and Type 2 from rare conditions often as a consequence of a small dose. See also risk or sensitive type.

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This can be compared with data from the Australian Incident Monitoring System showing that most medication incidents occurring in hospital were categorised as omissions (>25%), overdoses (20%), wrong medicines (10%), drug of addiction discrepancy (<5%), incorrect labelling (<5%) or an adverse drug reaction (<5%).

Strategies to reduce medication errors with reference to older adults by Australian Nursing Journal

Some researchers (24,25) also have cited fatigue as an adverse drug reaction.

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Supplemental injury and external cause codes assigned during cause-of-death coding differentiate radiation and toxic gastroenteritis, as well as gastroenteritis attributable to adverse drug reactions (19).

Deaths due to unknown foodborne agents by Frenzen, Paul D. / Emerging Infectious Diseases

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