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Table 3 Departments of admittance of the study population

From: The frequency of adverse drug reaction related admissions according to method of detection, admission urgency and medical department specialty

Medical departments

No. of patients admitted regardless of ADR (N = 520)

No. of patients admitted due to ADR (%) (N = 30)

Cardiology

163

4 (2.5%) *

Angiology

74

0 (0%) **

Gastroenterology

72

13 (18.0%) *, **

Endocrinology

68

6 (8.8%)

Haematology ***

47

4 (8.5%)

Intensive Care Medicine

38

2 (5.3%)

Nephrology

32

1 (3.1%)

Pulmonology

21

0 (0%)

Toxicology

5

0 (0%)

  1. * p = 0.001 Department of Gastroenterology v. Department of Cardiology, ** p = 0.001 Department of Gastroenterology v. Department of Angiology, *** haematology includes only patients with leukaemia and some lymphomas