• Is this an adverse effect (e.g., side effect or sensitivity to a drug correctly administered) or is this a poisoning (e.g., misuse of drug like an overdose, combination of a medication with alcohol)?
• Supply the name of the substance causing the complications (e.g., Prednisone, shellfish, Digoxin, latex)
• List all complications the substances may have caused (e.g., cardiac arrest, convulsions, arrhythmias)
• Specify any abuse of or dependence on the substance
• Specify any external causes (e.g., malfunction of insulin pump)
• Provide information regarding the circumstances surrounding the event as follows:
  
  • Accidental (i.e., unintentional)
  • Intentional (i.e., self- harm)
  • Assault
  • Undetermined (when impossible to determine the intent)

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