Title: Emergency Hospitalizations for ADEs in Older Americans
题目：美国老年人因药物副作用而紧急入院的情况
Author 作者: Bryan Hayes

A recent article estimated 100,000 emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in U.S. adults 65 years of age or older each year. Nearly half of these hospitalizations were among adults ≥80 years old and two-thirds were due to unintentional overdoses.
一篇新的文章预测每年在美国要有10万65岁以上的病人因药物的副作用而入院。其中接近二分之一的入院病人年龄超过80岁，而三分之二的病人是因为无意的服药过量。
Four medications or medication classes were implicated alone or in combination in 67% of hospitalizations:
下面四个药的单独或合用占这些住院病人的67％。
Warfarin (33.3%) 华法令（33.3％）
Insulins (13.9%) 胰岛素（13.9％）
Oral antiplatelet agents (13.3%) 口服抗血小板药（13.3％）
Oral hypoglycemic agents (10.7%) 口服降糖药（10.7％）

Opioids were #5. Digoxin was #7 and resulted in the highest percentage of hospitalizations per ED visit at 80%.
鸦片类药物名列第五。地高心占第七，但在急诊就诊病人中的住院率是最高的（80％）。
References 参考文献

Budnitz DS, et al. Emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in older Americans. N Engl J Med 2011;365:2002-2012.