TY - JOUR ID - 45806 TI - Drug Related Hospital Admissions; A Systematic Review of the Recent Literatures JO - Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma JA - BEAT LA - en SN - 2322-2522 AU - Ayalew, Mohammed Biset AU - Tegegn, Henok Getachew AU - Abdela, Ousman AD - Department of clinical pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health, University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 339 EP - 346 KW - Drug related problems KW - Hospital admission KW - Adverse drug reaction KW - Review KW - Emergency visit DO - 10.29252/beat-070401 N2 - Objective: To derive findings from different studies done on drug related hospital admissions and comprehensively express the incidence and preventability of drug related hospital admissions; identify the common types of drug related problems that caused hospital admission, and identify factors associated with drug related hospital admission. Methods: Literatures that assessed hospitalization due to drug related problems were searched online using Pub Med and Google Scholar databases. The relevant reference lists of retrieved articles were also searched manually on Google. Prospective and retrospective studies conducted anywhere in the world on drug related hospitalization, published from January 2012 to January 2017 as an original article and written in English language were included. Result: The prevalence of drug related hospital admission varies from 1.3% to 41.3% with the average rate of 15.4%. Among hospitalized patients 2.7% were died due to drug-related problems (DRPs). Drugs that were frequently reported as causing drug related admission were antithrombotic drugs, antihypertensive drugs, analgesics, anti-diabetics, antipsychotics, and anti-neoplastic drugs.  Poly pharmacy, old age and female sex were mentioned as determinants for drug related hospitalization by a number of studies. About one third of drug related hospital admissions were definitely preventable and more than 40% were also potentially preventable. Conclusion: Drug related problems contribute for more than 15% of hospital admissions. Higher risk of admission due to DRPs was observed in patients who were on poly pharmacy and those who were old. As most of drug related hospital admissions were preventable an emphasis should be given for preventive strategies to avoid complications and costs associated with admission. UR - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_45806.html L1 - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_45806_49368e7c6caf3a0dbf86881bde64e230.pdf ER -