11. Only one patient dropped out because of adverse drug reactions . 12. Concerns about polypharmacy include increased adverse drug reactions , drug interactions, prescribing cascade and higher costs. 13. Of course, doctors, nurses and pharmacists have to get better at preventing adverse drug reactions . 14. These adverse drug reactions result in an estimated economic cost of $ 136 billion per year. 15. Adverse drug reactions are estimated to kill 100, 000 patients a year in the United States.16. NSAIDs are also associated with a fairly high incidence of renal adverse drug reactions ( glomeruli. 17. Otherwise, he said, a patient injured by an adverse drug reaction would have to file two suits. 18. TPMT is now listed as a pharmacogenomic biomarker for adverse drug reactions to cisplatin by the FDA. 19. The report notes that hospitals routinely collect information on adverse drug reactions and store them in databases. 20. The program is designed to reduce adverse drug reactions and dispensing errors with the use of technology.