Adverse Drug Events

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ADE
Pronunciation
/ˌædˈvərs drəg ɪˈvɛnts/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Drugs

Examples in Context

  1. This drug can also interact with other medications that patients may be taking and increase their risk of adverse drug events.
  2. This type of collaborative research will eventually reduce a patient's likelihood of experiencing serious, and sometimes life-threatening, adverse drug events.
  3. More research is needed in this area, focusing on developing countries, where, it is suggested, rates of adverse drug events are even higher than in the developed world.
  4. Objective : To assess existence and preventability of adverse drug events ( ADEs ) and to investigate excess length of stay and extra hospital charges of the ADEs.
  5. But at the same time, it also leads to drug quality problems and adverse drug events.

Other meanings of ADE