Evaluation of Clinical Symptoms and Associated Factors in the Drug-Induced Toxicity in Patients Referred to Hospital
Journal Title: Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology Advances - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Today, Drug Problem with the global expansion has become a burden on society due to high drug production, increased purity and low price of these materials. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical manifestations and factors associated with drug-induced toxicity in patients referred to hospitals in Ardabil city in 2012. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study that has been done on poisoning patients referred to Ardabil city two specialty hospitals in year 2011. Patients’ information such as individual characteristics (age, gender, residence place, job and marital status), used drugs, poisoning cause, referral season, history of physical and mental disease and clinical symptoms were obtained from hospitalized patients files. Collected data analyzed using statistical methods in SPSS.19. In this study 282 hospitalized patients were entered. Tramadol with 110 persons (39%) was the most common used drug in poisoning. Majority of patients with 230 patients (81.6%) were male. Most of patients were in age group 20-30 years with 106 cases (37.6%). 244 patients (86.5%) were from urban and most of them with 70 cases (24.8%) had primary education level. Spring season was the most commonly season for referring. 89% of poisoning in patients was informed. Result showed that the poisoning by drugs was the most cause of referring patients to hospital which can be prevented by decrease arbitrary use of drugs and also increasing the awareness level of personnel about care of these patients.
Authors and Affiliations
E. Farzaneh , B. Mostafazadeh , Y. Shafaiee
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