Table 1.

Incidence of medication-related hospital admissions in Australia assessed using chart review (created by the authors)

	Total admissions reviewed	Total medicine related	Type of medicine-related admission
			Adverse medicine reaction	Non-compliance	Overdose	Other
All hospital admissions assessed
Gleeson, 1988 [17]	947	34 (3.6%)	34 (3.6%)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Larmour et al. 1991 [18]	5623	136 (2.4%)	90 (1.6%)	5 (0.09%)	40 (0.7%)	1 (0.02%)
Admissions via Emergency Department assessed
Galbraith 1993 [19]	751	48 (6.4%)	N/A	N/A	7 (0.9%)	N/A
Dartnell et al. 1996 [20]	965	68 (7%)	26 (2.7%)	15 (1.6%)	13 (1.3%)	14 (1.5%)
Phillips et al. 2014 [21]	370	59 (16%)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Li et al. 2021 [22]	5521	496 (9%)	496 (9%)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Admissions to Medical Wards assessed
Stanton et al. 1994 [24]	691	81 (11.7%)	21* (3%)	10* (1.4%)	26* (3.8%)	11* (1.6%)
Sarkawi and Daud 1995 [23]	419	49 (11.7%)	21 (5%)	12 (2.9%)	14 (3.3%)	2 (0.5%)
Leishman and Vial 1998 [25]	217	33 (15.2%)	10 (4.6%)	8 (3.7%)	11 (5.1%)	4 (1.8%)
Geriatric admissions via emergency departments assessed
Wong et al. 1993 [26]	541	81 (15%)	61 (11.3%)	19 (3.5%)	1 (0.2%)	N/A
Atkin et al. 1994 [30]	217	48 (22.1%)	41 (18.9%)	5 (2.3%)	1 (0.5%)	1 (0.5%)
Ng 1996 [31]	172	31 (18%)	18 (10.5%)	5 (2.9%)	1 (0.6%)	7 (4.1%)
Harding 1998 [28]	16	6 (37.5%)	4 (25.0%)	1 (6.25%)	0	1 (6.25%)
Chan et al. 2001 [29] (≥ 75 years)	240	73 (30.4%)	32 (13.3%)	9 (3.8%)	1 (0.42%)	31 (12.9%)
Parameswaran Nair et al. 2017 [27] > 65 years	1008	191 (18.9%)	191 (18.9%)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Paediatric admissions assessed—medical only excluding oncology
Easton et al. 1998 [32]	1682	58 (3.4%)	10 (0.6%)	29 (1.7%)	10 (0.6%)	9 (0.5%)
Easton et al. 2004 [33]	2933	127 (4.3%)	29 (1.0%)	38 (1.3%)	N/A	N/A

N/A Not available

^*Total does not add up to 81 because study authors excluded 13 “possible” medication-related admissions from the analysis