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Table 4 The ten most frequent ADEs in 2006 recorded as the primary diagnosis (in descending order)

From: Drug-related admissions and hospital-acquired adverse drug events in Germany: a longitudinal analysis from 2003 to 2007 of ICD-10-coded routine data

ICD-10-GM

Category

Admissions

Code

Text

 

Frequency

Percentage

A04.7

Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile

C

9874

0.065

T88.7

Unspecified adverse effect of drug or medicament

A.2

5004

0.033

I95.2

Hypotension due to drugs

A.1

3720

0.025

D69.0

Allergic purpura

C

3526

0.023

T50.9

Poisoning: Other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances

B.2

3501

0.023

T78.3

Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified: angioneurotic edema

A.2

3465

0.023

L27.0

Generalized skin eruption due to drugs and medicaments

A.2

3400

0.022

K52.1

Toxic gastroenteritis and colitis

C

2727

0.018

D70.10

Drug-induced agranulocytosis and neutropenia: Critical phase <10 days

A.1

2022

0.013

T78.4

Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified: allergy, unspecified

A.2

1754

0.012

Total number of in-patients

 

15181779

100.000