title: [Cost of hospitalizations for adverse drug effects].
abstract: The French network of Regional Pharmacovigilance Centres evaluated in 1997 the prevalence of adverse effects of drugs (AED). In 1998, and again with the support of the French Drug Agency, in collaboration with the company CEMKA for economic evaluations, the incidence of AED-related hospitalizations in the medical department of French public hospitals was studied. The evaluation was performed over 14 consecutive days in 62 hospital departments, which were selected randomly. The total number of 3137 patients were hospitalized for a mean duration of 9 days and they were using a mean number of six different drugs. Taking into account the number of about 4 million patients admitted per year in the hospitals represented, it was estimated that the total number of AED-related hospitalizations amounts to about 130,000 annually (CI95%: 100,916-156,620). Using established cost calculations for hospitalized days (AP-HP, results of 1996) the mean cost for an AED-related hospitalization was estimated to be about FF16,000.
authors.affiliation: CEMKA, Bourg la Reine, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Detournay
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fagnani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pouyanne
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Haramburu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Begaud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Welsch
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Imbs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000191:economics; D011446:Prospective Studies
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
vernacular_title: Coût des hospitalisations pour effet indésirable médicamenteux.