Summary

--SUPERS-- File --LEAD IN-- BAD REACTIONS TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE INCREASING.... ACCORDING TO THE CDC. ONE OUT OF EVERY 250-AMERICANS VISITIED THE EMERGENCY ROOM DURING 2013 AND 2014 DUE TO AN ADVERSE DRUG REACTION. --VO SCRIPT-- THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION REPORT WAS PUBLISHED TUESDAY. IT FOUND THAT OUT OF ALL OF THE GROUPS-- ELDERLY AMERICANS ENDED UP IN THE E-R AT A HIGHER RATE. ABOUT 35-PERCENT OF ALL E-R VISITS IN THE STUDY WERE PEOPLE 65 OR OLDER. THAT"S ACTUALLY UP FROM 2005 AND 2006 WHEN IT WAS JUST 26-PERCENT. OLDER ADULTS ALSO EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST HOSPITALIZATION RATES. -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT----- --KEYWORD TAGS-- MEDICAL ELDERLY FILE STORY ER DRUG REACTIONS EMERGENCY ROOM VISIT

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Title STUDY: ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS/ER VISITS RISING
Date 11/22/2016
Description --SUPERS-- File --LEAD IN-- BAD REACTIONS TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE INCREASING.... ACCORDING TO THE CDC. ONE OUT OF EVERY 250-AMERICANS VISITIED THE EMERGENCY ROOM DURING 2013 AND 2014 DUE TO AN ADVERSE DRUG REACTION. --VO SCRIPT-- THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION REPORT WAS PUBLISHED TUESDAY. IT FOUND THAT OUT OF ALL OF THE GROUPS-- ELDERLY AMERICANS ENDED UP IN THE E-R AT A HIGHER RATE. ABOUT 35-PERCENT OF ALL E-R VISITS IN THE STUDY WERE PEOPLE 65 OR OLDER. THAT"S ACTUALLY UP FROM 2005 AND 2006 WHEN IT WAS JUST 26-PERCENT. OLDER ADULTS ALSO EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST HOSPITALIZATION RATES. -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT----- --KEYWORD TAGS-- MEDICAL ELDERLY FILE STORY ER DRUG REACTIONS EMERGENCY ROOM VISIT
Class Editorial
Rights Rights Managed
Format Standard Definition
Synopsis Prescription drug reactions send more older Americans to the ER
CNN ID 39549045
Name 370U7L7_001
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