RT Journal Article
T1 Mortalidad hospitalaria asociada a medicamentos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna.
T2 Drug-related mortality among inpatients admitted in Internal Medicine
A1 Pardo-Cabello, A J
A1 Manzano-Gamero, V
A1 Del-Pozo, E
A1 Gomez-Jimenez, F J
A1 Luna-Del Castillo, J D
A1 Puche-Cañas, E
K1 Adverse drug reactions. 
K1 Pharmacoepidemiology
K1 Internal Medicine
K1 Hospital mortality
AB To analyze the mortality associated with prescriptions, the drugs most frequently involved and the associated risk factors in patients admitted to Internal Medicine. A retrospective, observational study. The clinical records of adult patients who died consecutively in the department of Internal Medicine in a Spanish tertiary hospital over twenty-two months were reviewed. The main variable was the prevalence of hospital death suspected of being related to the medications administered during admission. Out of the 455 deaths analyzed, 22.2% were related to the medications received; in 55 cases (12.1%) the drugs were suspected of being the cause of death and in 46 cases (10.1%) of contributing to it. The most frequent diagnoses in cases of death associated with drugs were cardiac arrhythmia (23.7%), severe hemorrhage (19.8%) and aspiration pneumonia (12.8%). The drugs with the highest prevalence in deaths related to pharmacological treatment were an-tithrombotic drugs (23.7%), digoxin (21.7%), antipsychotics (17.8%) and benzodiazepines (14.8%). The only independent risk factor for mortality associated with treatment was the number of medications administered (OR=1.25, 95%CI: 1.14-1.37). No significant association was found with age, sex, number of pathologies or duration of hospital stay. A high percentage of deaths of patients admitted to Internal Medicine were considered related to the medications received. Antithrombotic drugs, digoxin and psychotropic drugs were the agents most frequently implicated. This mortality is independently and significantly associated with the number of medications administered.
PB Gobierno de Navarra * Fondo de Publicaciones
SN 1137-6627
YR 2018
FD 2018-11-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13185
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13185
LA es
NO Pardo-Cabello AJ, Manzano-Gamero V, Del-Pozo E, Gómez-Jiménez FJ, Luna-Del Castillo JD, Puche-Cañas E. Mortalidad hospitalaria asociada a medicamentos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna [Drug-related mortality among inpatients admitted in Internal Medicine]. An Sist Sanit Navar. 2018 Dec 26;41(3):339-346.
DS RISalud
RD Apr 18, 2025