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Incidence and factors associated with adverse drug reactions in a cohort of ind...
Mendes, Jullye Campos; Braga , Maria das Graças; Reis, Adriano Max Moreira; Silveira, Micheline RosaProspective cohort of people living with HIV who started combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) with regimens containing efavirenz (EFV) or dolutegravir (DTG) in three specialized HIV/AIDS care services in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with the objective of analyzing incidence, time to development and factors associated with the first adverse drug reaction (ADR). Data were collected from September 2015 to October ...
Adverse drug events in a sentinel hospital in the State of Goiás, Brazil
Silva, Ana Elisa Bauer de Camargo; Reis, Adriano Max Moreira; Miasso, Adriana Inocenti; Santos, Jânia Oliveira; Cassiani, Silvia Helena De BortoliThis was a retrospective, descriptive and documental study with the aim of identifying adverse drug events which occurred in the medication administration process and to classify these medication errors. This study was developed in the internal medicine unit of a general hospital of Goiás, Brazil. Report books used by nursing staff from the period 2002 to 2007, were analyzed. A total of 230 medication errors we...
Prevalence of potential drug interactions in patients in an intensive care unit...
Reis, Adriano Max Moreira; Cassiani, Silvia Helena De BortoliOBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of potential drug interactions at the intensive care unit of a university hospital in Brazil and to analyze their clinical significance. METHODS: This cross-sectional retrospective study included 299 patients who had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The drugs administered during the first 24 hours of hospitalization, in the 50th length-ofsta...
Concomitant prescribing and dispensing errors at a Brazilian hospital: a descri...
Silva, Maria das Dores Graciano; Rosa, Mário Borges; Franklin, Bryony Dean; Reis, Adriano Max Moreira; Anchieta, Leni MárciaOBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence and types of prescribing and dispensing errors occurring with high-alert medications and to propose preventive measures to avoid errors with these medications. INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of adverse events in health care has increased, and medication errors are probably the most common cause of these events. Pediatric patients are known to be a high-risk group and are an im...
Analysis of the evidence of efficacy and safety of over-the-counter cough medic...
Reis, Adriano Max Moreira; Figueras, AlbertThe objective of this study was to analyze the level of evidence regarding the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medications registered in Brazil. The National Health Surveillance Agency database was used to identify the drugs. Clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and studies on safety were searched on the Medline baseline, the Cochrane Library and SIETES (System ...