Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Adverse Events

An adverse event is any undesirable or harmful occurrence experienced by a patient during medical care or exposure to an intervention, whether or not it is causally related to that intervention. The category spans medication side effects and errors, procedural and surgical complications, healthcare-associated infect…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 13× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-3585 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

An adverse event is any undesirable or harmful occurrence experienced by a patient during medical care or exposure to an intervention, whether or not it is causally related to that intervention. The category spans medication side effects and errors, procedural and surgical complications, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and other unintended harms, and it is distinguished in pharmacovigilance from the adverse drug reaction, in which a causal link to a drug is established. Systematic detection, reporting, and analysis of adverse events are central to clinical safety, regulatory evaluation, and quality improvement, and they form a core safety endpoint in clinical trials alongside efficacy. Within preventive medicine, the emphasis lies in anticipating and mitigating these events through risk assessment, monitoring, and systems-based safety practices. Research relevant to this area includes the efficacy and safety of combination antihypertensive therapy, predictors of adverse events after total laryngectomy, safety endpoints in randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials of investigational agents, viral kinetics during drug treatment, perioperative cardiac risk prediction, and frameworks for patient safety and clinical risk management in general practice. Such work informs the balance of benefit and harm in clinical decision-making. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on treatment safety, adverse-event prediction and surveillance, and clinical risk management within preventive and general care.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 13 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Adverse Events, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Preventive Medicine And Care (ISSN 2474-3585).

Journal editorial board
Heejung Kim · South Korea Monica Wang · United States Siddhartha Jonnalagadda · United States

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