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Preventable Adverse Drug Events
Chart showing "Preventable Adverse Drug Events based on Relative Frequency and its Rankings." The chart shows the highest relative frequency are with cardiovascular drugs, and it goes down in rate in this order: diuretics, NSAIDS, hypoglycemics, anticoagulants, opioids and antiseizure.
Notes:
Another way to see this is with the absolute rate of Preventable ADE's.
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