Diseases

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions

Disorders that result from the intended use of PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS. Included in this heading are a broad variety of chemically-induced adverse conditions due to toxicity, DRUG INTERACTIONS, and metabolic effects of pharmaceuticals.

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Abstract

Disorders that result from the intended use of PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS. Included in this heading are a broad variety of chemically-induced adverse conditions due to toxicity, DRUG INTERACTIONS, and metabolic effects of pharmaceuticals.

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Synonyms

22 entry terms
  • Adverse Drug Event
  • Adverse Drug Reaction
  • Drug Side Effects
  • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reaction
  • Side Effects of Drugs
  • Adverse Drug Events
  • Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Drug Event, Adverse
  • Drug Events, Adverse
  • Drug Reaction, Adverse
  • Drug Reactions, Adverse
  • Drug Related Side Effects and Adverse Reaction
  • Drug Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
  • Drug Side Effect
  • Effects, Drug Side
  • Reactions, Adverse Drug
  • Side Effect, Drug
  • Side Effects, Drug
  • Drug Toxicity
  • Toxicity, Drug
  • Drug Toxicities
  • Toxicities, Drug

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Aspects Covered

32 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified only; prefer specific drug-related disorder + specific drug with /adv eff /pois or /tox; for disorders relating to the abuse of drugs use SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS or specifics

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History Note

2014; DRUG-TOXICITY was heading 1998-2013

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Previous Indexing

  • Substance-Related Disorders (1998-2013)

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  1. C25.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064420. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064420
  2. Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_drug_reaction
  3. Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45959