New study finds one in four hospitalizations is drug related.
A recent study by Samoy et al. (2006) found that almost 25% of patients admitted to the internal medicine ward of British Columbia's largest hospital are there because of sickness brought on by adverse drug reactions.
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D001955:British Columbia; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006757:Hospital Units; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine