Development of a trigger tool to identify adverse drug events in elderly patients with multimorbidity. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Development of a trigger tool to identify adverse drug events in elderly patients with multimorbidity. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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Development of a trigger tool to identify adverse drug events in elderly patients with multimorbidity.

Toscano Guzmán MD, Galván Banqueri M, Otero MJ, Alfaro Lara ER, Casajus Lagranja P, Santos Ramos B. J Patient Saf. 2017 Jun 14; [Epub ahead of print].

Adverse drug events in older patients are common. Researchers describe the development of a set of triggers for identifying adverse drug events among elderly patients, which will need to be validated in clinical practice.

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