Clinical decision making on statin drug interactions

Clinical decision making on statin drug interactions.

Potential statin-drug interactions: prevalence and clinical significance

BACKGROUND Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs widely used for cardiovascular prevention. Although safe when used alone, in combination with other drugs the likelihood of adverse drug reactions increases significantly. The exposure of the Bulgarian population to coprescriptions leading to potential statin-drug interactions is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to invest...

Clinical Decision Support System: An Effective Tool to Detect and Manage Drug-Laboratory Interactions

Lack of proper linkage between a patient’s medications and the results of laboratory tests can lead to common medication errors called drug-laboratory interactions (DLIs). DLIs are among the major types of preventable medication errors in the treatment process. Application of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for physicians and other health care providers to decrease DLIs can effectivel...

Clinical Decision Support System: An Effective Tool to Detect and Manage Drug-Laboratory Interactions

Lack of proper linkage between a patient’s medications and the results of laboratory tests can lead to common medication errors called drug-laboratory interactions (DLIs). DLIs are among the major types of preventable medication errors in the treatment process. Application of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for physicians and other health care providers to decrease DLIs can effectivel...

Recommendations for selecting drug-drug interactions for clinical decision support.

PURPOSE Recommendations for including drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in clinical decision support (CDS) are presented. SUMMARY A conference series was conducted to improve CDS for DDIs. A work group consisting of 20 experts in pharmacology, drug information, and CDS from academia, government agencies, health information vendors, and healthcare organizations was convened to address (1) the proc...