Adverse Drug Reactions (Adrs) Associated With Hospital Admissions – Male Patients Are At Highest Risk

Abstract

Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) may occur following a single dose or prolonged administration of a drug or may result from the combination of two or more drugs. The meaning of this term differs from the term "side effect" because side effects can be beneficial as well as detrimental. The study of ADRs is also known as pharmacovigilance. During this study ADRs assessed according to World Health Organization (WHO)–Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) causality assessment criteria, Naranjo scale, Karch and lasagna scale, the result indicate symptoms of ADRs in male patient of adults and geriatrics common and it may be due to combination drug therapy. When ADRs assessed by using WHO Possible scale & Naranjo’s probability scale it was found that only 05.13% have certain ADRs which required treatment while possible ADRs are between 39.84 to 55.68% also required strict monitoring. The main aim of this study was to find out the cause of ADRs and their assessment during hospital stay and developing a monitoring system and actively electronic submission of identified ADRs as per WHO ADRs monitoring system to prevent risk of ADRs.