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Concept

Medication-related events involving incorrect administration or dosage of medications identified during a hospital stay.

Notes

This clinical group does not include events caused by medications in therapeutic use.

Selection criteria

°Õ36–T50

Identified as diagnosis type (2)

Codes

Code descriptions

°Õ36.–

Poisoning by systemic antibiotics

°Õ37.–

Poisoning by other systemic anti-infectives and antiparasitics

°Õ38.–

Poisoning by hormones and their synthetic substitutes and antagonists, not elsewhere classified

°Õ39.–

Poisoning by nonopioid analgesics, antipyretics and antirheumatics

°Õ40.–

Poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics (hallucinogens)

°Õ41.–

Poisoning by anesthetics and therapeutic gases

°Õ42.–

Poisoning by antiepileptic, sedative-hypnotic and antiparkinsonism drugs

°Õ43.–

Poisoning by psychotropic drugs, not elsewhere classified

°Õ44.–

Poisoning by drugs primarily affecting the autonomic nervous system

°Õ45.–

Poisoning by primarily systemic and hematological agents, not elsewhere classified

°Õ46.–

Poisoning by agents primarily affecting the cardiovascular system

°Õ47.–

Poisoning by agents primarily affecting the gastrointestinal system

°Õ48.–

Poisoning by agents primarily acting on smooth and skeletal muscles and the respiratory system

°Õ49.–

Poisoning by topical agents primarily affecting skin and mucous membrane and by ophthalmological, otorhinolaryngological and dental drugs

°Õ50.–

Poisoning by diuretics and other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances