Health care use and costs of adverse drug events emerging from outpatient treatment in Germany: A modelling approach

Table 2 Range of healthcare utilisation according to outpatient literature

Healthcare facilities used for ADE/ADR	Healthcare utilisation per ADE/ADR in %	Healthcare utilisation according to the population ingesting medications in %
Physician visit	48.2 [36] - 88.7 [37]	3.5 [28] - 22.2 [29]
Emergency care	8.6 [29] - 15.7 [28]	0.9 [28] - 3.0 [29]
Hospitalisation	4.0 [38] - 12.4 [37]	0.50 [28] - 4.19 [29]

ADE: adverse drug event; ADR: adverse drug reaction; Study references are in square brackets

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