Medicine-related Prevention of Future Death reports in the UK.

Overall, 18% of PFDs produced during the study period involved medicines, most commonly opioid analgesics (22%), antidepressants (9.7%), hypnosedatives (9.2%) and anticoagulants (7.3%). Prevention of Future Death (PFD) reports produced by coroners in England and Wales are commonly medicine-related, according to findings of a retrospective case series published in I Drug Safety i . [Extracted from the article]