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E.G. McQueen, FRACP
Dunedin, New Zealand

JAMA. 1975;231(8):811.

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To the Editor.—

In relation to the editorial by Dr. John C. Ballin (229:1097, 1974), the results of a survey of adverse drug reactions in a general hospital in New Zealand carried out in 1972 may be of some relevance. The data relate to all admissions to Dunedin Hospitals and are based on an intensive monitoring of reactions over a 12-month period.^1,2 During this time, there were 17,586 admissions to all wards and a total of 600 deaths, of which 11 were considered attributable to or substantially contributed to by adverse drug reactions. Adverse reaction mortality, therefore, was 0.06% of all admissions or 1.8% of total deaths.

The population under scrutiny was a relatively small one, but the data may be helpful by reason of their derivation from the whole intake of a general hospital rather than selected wards. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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