Measuring the Incidence of Hospital Readmissions Based on Adverse Drug Events

Hasselt University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Incidence of Readmissions; ADE's Due to Anticoagulants

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02074085

14.05/APO14.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

An ADE is defined as harm caused by a drug or the inappropriate use of a drug. Retrospective record reviews in several countries have shown that anticoagulants frequently lead to hospital readmissions. In this study a hospital readmission is defined as an admission to the emergency department of the Jessa hospital. The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of one week and 30-day readmissions caused by (preventable) ADE's due to anticoagulants.

Enrollment: 450 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients who received an anticoagulant on their last day of admission
2. Patients who were readmitted within 30 days
3. Patients who were diagnosed using the pathology registration of the emergency department of the Jessa hospital

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients who didn't receive an anticoagulant on their last day of admission
2. Patients who were not readmitted within 30 days
3. Patients who were not diagnosed using the pathology registration of the emergency department of the Jessa hospital
4. Patients with missing data