Caracterização das reações adversas a medicamentos reportadas ao programa de Fármaco-vigilância de um hospital de alta complexidade e fatores associados com sua evitabilidade

Conteúdo do artigo principal

Juan Pablo Botero Aguirre
Alejandra María Restrepo Hamid

Resumo

Objetivos: caracterizar as reações adversas a medicamentos reportadas ao programa de Fármaco-vigilância de um hospital de alta complexidade entre 2009 e 2012 e identificar os fatores associados com sua evitabilidade.


Metodologia: estudo observacional, transversal, baseado nos reportes de reações adversas notificados ao programa de Fármaco-vigilância. Realizou-se análise uni-variado para as variáveis qualitativas e para as comparações se calculou o Chi-quadrado de independência. O tamanho de mostra estimado com uma potência de 80% foi de 84 casos.


Resultados: reportaram-se 2.973 reações adversas a medicamentos em 2.531 pacientes com frequência similar em ambos sexos e uma idade média de 41.7 anos (DE 24.42). Os antibacterianos sistémicos e os analgésicos são os grupos terapêuticos mais reportados (28.76% e 19.44%, respectivamente). A pele e apêndices foi o sistema corporal mais afetado (47.1%). As reações moderadas e graves representam o 88.7% das reações reportadas e o 9.4% foi evitável. Encontrou-se associação significativa entre a evitabilidade e os medicamentos de alto risco, os antecedentes alérgicos, se a reação foi considerada a causa de rendimento ao hospital e a idade dos pacientes.


Conclusões: os resultados obtidos são comparáveis com outros estudos e permitiram identificar fatores susceptíveis de intervenção para promover o uso seguro de medicamentos; a identificação de fatores associados com a evitabilidade, alguns não reportados até agora, constitui um achado importante na busca de estratégias de minimização de erros previsíveis.

Palavras-chave:
farmacovigilância, efeitos colaterais e reações adversas relacionados a medicamentos

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Biografia do Autor

Juan Pablo Botero Aguirre, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe

Farmacêutico Químico, Departamento de Assistência Farmacêutica, Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Medellín, Colômbia.

Alejandra María Restrepo Hamid, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe

Médico Toxicologista, Serviço de Emergência, Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Medellín, Colômbia.

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