The meta-analysis estimated 106,000 fatal hospital adverse drug reactions in 1994, with a 95% range of 76,000-137,000, from a fatal incidence of 0.32%. It excluded administration errors, noncompliance, overdose, drug abuse, therapeutic failures, and possible ADRs.
Of 153, we selected 39 prospective studies from US hospitals.
The meta-analysis estimated 106,000 fatal hospital adverse drug reactions in 1994, with a 95% range of 76,000-137,000, from a fatal incidence of 0.32%. It excluded administration errors, noncompliance, overdose, drug abuse, therapeutic failures, and possible ADRs. This was a hospital-based extrapolation, not a current all-cause outpatient mortality count.