Drug‐Related Hospital Admissions

To describe the frequency and pattern of drug-related morbidity that results in hospital admission and the extent to which these admissions are avoidable, we prospectively reviewed the charts of 452 consecutive patients admitted to the intensive care unit or internal medicine service of a university-affiliated, county hospital. Of these, 73 (16.2%) were admitted due to drug-related morbidity. Forty patients (54.8%) experienced drug therapy...