抄録
Adverse drug reactions cause increases in medical care expenditure. To investigate this, we estimated the annual cost of the treatment of serious drug-induced dermopathy based a report by the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare (MHLW).We used the “relief system for sufferers of adverse drug reactions” and “Diagnosis Procedure Combination” to calculate the cost of treating each patient for serious drug-induced dermopathy, which worked out at 337, 470 yen/patient. In fiscal 2000, 302 cases of serious drug-induced dermopathy were reported so the total cost of treating this condition was estimated at 101, 915, 940 yen. This result shows that the economic cost of treating adverse drug reactions is very large.
