Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf · Oct 2005
Utilization of hospital and outpatient care for adverse cutaneous reactions to medications.
To quantify hospitalizations, visits to office based physicians, hospital clinics and emergency departments with primary diagnoses of skin conditions that are often due to drug reaction. ⋯ Skin conditions often attributed to drugs are frequent reasons for hospitalization and physician visits. Optimal care of the individual patients with these conditions requires careful attention to drugs as a possible cause.