Adherence to Black Box Warnings for Prescription Medications in Outpatients
Author(s) -
Karen E. Lasser,
Diane L. Seger,
Donghui Yu,
Andrew S. Karson,
Julie Fiskio,
Andrew C. Seger,
Nidhi Shah,
Tejal K. Gandhi,
Jeffrey M. Rothschild,
David W. Bates
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.3.338
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , harm , observational study , drug , family medicine , medical emergency , adverse effect , emergency medicine , psychiatry , pharmacology , psychology , social psychology
Few data are available regarding the prevalence of potentially dangerous drug-drug, drug-laboratory, and drug-disease interactions among outpatients. Our objectives were to determine how frequently clinicians prescribe drugs in violation of black box warnings for these issues and to determine how frequently such prescribing results in harm.
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