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. 2024 Feb 8;14:11. doi: 10.1186/s13561-024-00481-y

Table 2.

Studies calculating the cost of adverse drug events, clinical data

First author (year) (ref) Country Clinical area Study design Number of patients Type of ADE Population Settings Suspected drug(s)
1 Katsuno et al. (2021) [19] Japan Inpatients and outpatients

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

359 ADE Patient aged > 1 year All (except experimental drugs)
2 Trumbo et al. (2021) [8] USA Inpatients and outpatients

Pharmacovigilance database

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

NK ADE All patients Intravenous iron
3 Iwasaki et al. (2021) [18] Japan Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

907 Preventable ADE Patients < 15 years and hospitalised in any unit and patients over 15 years old hospitalised in paediatric units All prescribed medication
4 Tissot et al. (2021) [9] France Inpatients and outpatients

Pharmacovigilance database

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

1185 Serious ADR All patients except patients with serious congenital anomalies related All
5 Maity et al. (2021) [10] Canada Inpatients

Pharmacovigilance database

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

63 069 ADR All patients Remicad® and Humira® (biosimilars were not included)
6 Knight et al. (2019) [11] South Africa Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

89 ADR All patients with drug sensitive tuberculosis with a suspected cutaneous adverse drug reaction to first line anti-tuberculosis drugs First line anti-tuberculosis drugs
7 Boostani et al. (2019) [20] Iran Inpatients (tertiary care hospital / internal medicine unit)

- observational

- monocentric

- prospective

100 ME Patients hospitalised in internal medicine ward All
8 Riaz et al. (2019) [16] USA Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

3 832 322 ADE Age 65 and above All
9 Beck et al. (2019) [12] USA Inpatients (emergency room and tertiary care)

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

430 ADR Patients under 21 Antibiotics
10 Lee et al. (2019) [21] Korea Inpatients (emergency room and tertiary care)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

903 ADR All patients All
11 Liao et al. (2019) [17] Taiwan Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

2 393 ADR Age 65 and above All
12 Pok et al. (2018) [14] Malaysia Inpatients (tertiary care hospital/ rheumatology unit)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

634 ADE Patient hospitalised in the rheumatology department with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis NSAID
13 Schnippel et al. (2018) [13] South Africa Inpatients

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

12 527 ADR Multi drugs resistant (+ rifampicin) tuberculosis patients Drugs used in rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis
14 Shafi et al. (2018) [15] USA Inpatients (tertiary care hospital/ Surgery and endoscopy unit)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

135 379 ADE Age 18 and above (patients having surgery or endoscopy) Opioids
15 Kurle et al. (2018) [22] India Inpatients (tertiary care hospital / dermatology unit)

- observational

- monocentric

- prospective

55 ADR All patients except patients using alternative therapies All
16 Slight et al. (2018) [23] USA Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

40 990 Preventable ADE All patients All
17 Gyllensten et al. (2017) [24] Sweden Inpatients and outpatients

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

4 970 ADE Age 18 and above and living in the Östergötland county, Sweden All
18 Natanaelsson et al. (2017) [25] Sweden Inpatients and outpatients

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

5 025 ADE Age 18 and above and living in the Östergötland county, Sweden All
19 McCarthy Jr. et al. (2017) [26] USA Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- monocentric

- retrospective

3 521 ADE All patients All
20 Spector et al. (2017) [27] USA Inpatients (tertiary care hospital)

- observational

- multicentric

- retrospective

85 338 ADE Age 18 and above Anticoagulants and Hypoglycaemic agents