Healthcare encounters (2016 encounters) with interventions for diagnosing, treating and monitoring adverse drug events (ADEs), and the resulting direct costs per encounter.

* The cost of the intervention included in the direct costs caused by ADEs. Excluding encounters, and costs for interventions not identified in registers.†Prescribing of drugs associated with abuse or dependence were not analysed according to care level, since prescriber data was not available in the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register.‡In addition, two individuals were prescribed medicines (total cost: USD 140.6) for treating ADEs during healthcare encounters that were not identified in the Cost Per Patient Register.