Research Article

Analysis of Medication-Related Deaths in Denmark

Table 1

Specialty and number of preventable medication deaths.

Specialty involvedDeaths

General surgery (including surgical gastroenterology)2
Internal medicine 6
Obstetrics1
Orthopaedic surgery6
General medicine1
Cardiology2
Anaesthesiology (including intensive care unit)7
Thoracic surgery1
Radiology1
Neurosurgery1
Oncology2
Otorhinolaryngology1
Paediatrics1
Neurology1
Haematology2
Pulmonology1
Nephrology1

Total37