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Published in: Drug Safety 5/2011

01-05-2011 | Correspondence

Drug-Induced Thrombocytopenia

An Updated Systematic Review, 2010

Authors: Long Nguyen, Jessica Reese, James N. George

Published in: Drug Safety | Issue 5/2011

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Using methodology initially established 12 years ago,[1] we have systematically reviewed all English-language reports on drug-induced thrombocytopenia and published updates every 2 years; our most recent previous update was 6 October 2008.[2] Our goal for these continuing updates is to provide an accessible website resource for standardized analysis of all published reports of drug-induced thrombocytopenia, describing the level of evidence for a causal role of the drug, patient demographics, clinical outcomes and link to the publication for each report (www.ouhsc.edu/platelets). This letter presents the results of our current literature search. …
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Metadata
Title
Drug-Induced Thrombocytopenia
An Updated Systematic Review, 2010
Authors
Long Nguyen
Jessica Reese
James N. George
Publication date
01-05-2011
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Drug Safety / Issue 5/2011
Print ISSN: 0114-5916
Electronic ISSN: 1179-1942
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2165/11588450-000000000-00000

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