Developing a SNOMED CT-based value set to document symptoms and diagnoses for adverse drug events: A mixed-methods study (Preprint)

• Published in: JMIR medical informatics Vol. 13; p. e70167
• Main Authors: Lau, Erica, Bird, Linda, Lau, Anthony, Chau, Yau-Lam Alex, Butcher, Katherine, Buchkowsky, Susan, Gossack-Keenan, Kira, Sadowski, Cheryl, Hohl, Corinne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 08.07.2025
• Subjects: Adverse Drug Events Detection, Pharmacovigilance and Surveillance; Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; British Columbia; Clinical medicine; Decision making; Design; Documentation; Documentation - standards; Drug stores; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - diagnosis; Electronic Health Records; Emergency medical care; Hospitals; Humans; Ontologies, Classifications, and Coding; Original Paper; Patient safety; Pharmacovigilance; Semantics; Standards and Interoperability; Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; Terminology; British Columbia; SNOMED CT; adverse drug event; terminology standard; electronic medical records; pharmacovigilance

Adverse drug events (ADEs) lead to more than 2 million emergency department visits in Canada annually, resulting in significant patient harm and more than CAD $1 billion in health care costs (in 2018, the average exchange rate for 1 CAD was 0.7711 USD; 1 billion CAD would have been approximately 771...