Establishment of a pediatric trigger tool based on Global Trigger Tool to identify adverse drug events of children: experience in a Chinese hospital

Table 3 The identified ADEs

Data collection methods	Identified by 33 triggers	Non positive trigger	Total
Percent of admissions with ADE(95%CI)^a	20.5%(14.9%~26.1%)	3.5%(1.0%~6.1%)	24.0%
ADEs/100 admissions(95%CI)^b	49.0(42.1 ~ 55.9)	3.5(1.0 ~ 6.1)	52.5
ADEs/1000 patient days(95%CI)^c	46.89(37.8 ~ 56.0)	3.4(0.9 ~ 5.8)	50.24

ADE adverse drug event.
^aPercent of admissions with ADE = Total number of records with at least one event/Total records reviewed x 100
^bAdverse events per 100 admissions = Total number of adverse events/Total records reviewed x 100
^cAdverse events per 1,000 patient days = Total number of adverse events/Total length of stay(LOS) for all records reviewed x 1,000

ISSN: 1471-2431