Pharmaceutics and Drug Safety

Prevalence of Potential Drugs

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence and explain the characteristics of PDDIs  in medical recommendation of hospitalized surgical patients. In this transverse study, we examine 370 medical prescriptions from the surgery unit of a Mexican public teaching hospital. The classification and identification of potential drug-drug interactions were performed with the Micromedex 2.0 electronic drug information database. Results were examined with illustrative statistics and we estimated OR (odds ratio) to determine associated risk factors.

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  Study of Medscape Drug Interaction Checker