Descriptive study of adverse drug reactions in a tertiary care pediatric hospital in México from 2014 to 2017

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 3; p. e0230576
• Main Authors: Morales-Ríos, Olga, Cicero-Oneto, Carlo, García-Ruiz, Carlos, Villanueva-García, Dina, Hernández-Hernández, Maribelle, Olivar-López, Víctor, Jiménez-Juárez, Rodolfo Norberto, Jasso-Gutiérrez, Luis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acute Kidney Injury - etiology; Adolescent; Adult; Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; Algorithms; Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects; Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use; Biology and Life Sciences; Body mass index; Causality; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Complications; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - mortality; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - pathology; Drugs; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Female; Gender; Hospitals; Hospitals, Pediatric; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infectious diseases; Male; Malnutrition; Medical diagnosis; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mexico - epidemiology; Morbidity; Mortality; Neoplasms; Neoplasms - diagnosis; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Neutropenia; Patients; Pediatrics; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmacovigilance; Sepsis; Severity of Illness Index; Sex Factors; Side effects; Tertiary Healthcare; Young Adult; Mexico

In Pediatrics, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) affect morbidity and mortality. In Mexico, the characteristics of ADRs and suspect drugs have not been described in hospitalized children. To estimate the frequency of ADRs and describe them, as well as suspect drugs, in a tertiary care pediatric hospital...