Medicine related hospital admissions

In the beginning of 2017 a follow up report (of the HARM study and HARM Wrestling report, see GIMS library) was released which made clear that:

For patients over 65 years:

Investigation period was 2008-2013,

10% of the hospitalisations were medicine related,

50% of these were potentially avoidable!

for the Dutch situation that comes down to about 50.000 potentially avoidable hospitalisations per year!

For report:

eindrapport-vervolgonderzoek-medicatieveiligheid (1)