The American journal of medicine
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Multicenter Study
The incidence of adverse drug events in two large academic long-term care facilities.
To assess the incidence of and risk factors for adverse drug events in the long-term care setting. ⋯ Our findings reinforce the need for a special focus on the ordering and monitoring stages of pharmaceutical care for preventing adverse drug events in the long-term care setting. Patients taking antipsychotic agents, anticoagulants, diuretics, and antiepileptics are at increased risk.