Objective: to establish the relationship between subjective complaints of side drifts of drugs and the objective port of adverse drug reactions in older patients.

Objective: to establish the relationship between subjective complaints of side drifts of drugs and the objective port of adverse drug reactions in older patients. Design: observational cross-sectional application of mind Setting: five medical wards at the University Hospital Rotterdam Dijkzigt. Subjects: patients aged 70 and athwart admitted to the general medical wards throughout a 3-month period. Methods: statistical comparison and Kramer's algorithm. Results: of 106 patients, 102 used medication, and 93 of these were able to report whether they believed they were experiencing medicine side effects. Thirty-six [39% (95% confidence interval 288-486)] believed that they were experiencing side events and the number of diagnoses by patient and the proportion of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was higher in these 36 'complainers' than in the cluster of the 'non-complainers'. We set up a correct opinion (true positive and negative) about the objective neighborhood or absence of mild or bitter adverse drug reactions in 79% (95% confidence interval 702-868) Asking the patient about side powers of drugs had a sensitivity of 070 and a specificity of 085 patients. The sharp adverse drug reactions in 21 patients were not recognized by way of 14 of them. Conclusion: at hospital admission, older patients should be asked about medicine side effects because they are frequently correct in recognizing them. However, censorious adverse drug reactions are not easily recognized.

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