Use of a trigger tool to detect adverse drug reactions in an emergency department

• Main Authors: Silvana Maria de Almeida (Author), Aruana Romualdo (Author), Andressa de Abreu Ferraresi (Author), Giovana Roberta Zelezoglo (Author), Alexandre R. Marra (Author), Michael B. Edmond (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although there are systems for reporting adverse drug reactions (ADR), these safety events remain under reported. The low-cost, low-tech trigger tool method is based on the detection of events through clues, and it seems to increase the detection of adverse events compared to tra...