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Drug Reactions---A Major Cause of Death

Adverse drug reactions may cause the deaths ofover 100,000 US hospital patients each year, making them a leading cause ofdeath nationwide, according to a report in the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation.

"The incidence of serious and fataladverse drug reactions(ADRs) in US hospital was found to be extremelyhigh," say researchers at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

They carried on an analysis of 39 ADR-relatedstudies at US hospitals over the past 30 years and defined an ADR as "anyharmful, unintended, and undesired effect of a drug which occurs at doses usedin humans for prevention, diagnosis, or therapy."

An average 6.7% of all hospitalized patientsexperience an ADR every year, according to the researchers. They estimate that"in 1994, overall 2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious ADRs, and106,000 had fatal ADRs." This means that ADRs may rank as the fourthsingle largest cause of death in America.

And these incidence figures are probablyconservative, the researchers add, since their ADR definition did not includeoutcomes linked to problems in drug administration, overdoses, drug abuse, andtherapeutic failures.

The control of ADRs also means spending moremoney. One US study estimated the overall cost of treating ADRs at up to $4billion per year.

Dr David Bates of Brigham and Women's Hospitalin Boston, Massachusetts, believes that healthcare workers need to pay moreattention to the problem, especially since many ADRs are easily preventable."When a patient develops an allergy or sensitivity, it is often notrecorded," Bates notes, "and patients receive drug to which they haveknown allergies or sensitivities with disturbing frequency." He believescomputerized surveillance systems---still works-in-progress at many of thenation's hospitals---should help cut down the frequency of these types oferrors.

1. Researchers at the University of Torontobelieve that

A) ADRs have caused medical problems, thoughthey seldom lead to death.

B) ADRs have very often caused patients to diein Canada.

C) ADRs have caused many deaths in America overthe past 30 years.

D) It is easy to prevent ADRs from happening.

2. The investigators say that

A) 67 patients out of 100 in every Americanhospital die from ADRs each year.

B) 67 patients out of 100 in every Americanhospital experience from ADRs each year.

C) 6.7% of all hospitalized patients in Americaexperience ADRs each year on average.

D) 6.7% of all hospitalized patients in Canadaexperience ADRs each year on average.

3. An American research estimates that thetotal sum of money spent in treating ADRs each year is as much as

A) $40,000,000,000

B) $4,000,000,000

C) $400,000,000

D) $40,000,000

4. The Canadian investigators think that

A) the ADR incidence figures form theirresearch are surely very exact.

B) the ADR incidence figures form theirresearch are probably to high.

C) the ADR incidence figures form theirresearch are perhaps too low.

D) None of the above is true.

5. According to Dr David Bates, hospitals inAmerica

A) are not paying enough attention topossibilities of ADR happenings.

B) Have never tried to use computers to preventADRs from happening.

C) Do not use those drugs which will cause sideeffects to their patients.

D) Know that many ADRs are easily preventable.

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