Ability of pharmacy clinical decision-support software to alert users about clinically important drug—drug interactions
Author(s) -
Kim Saverno,
Lisa E. Hines,
Terri Warholak,
Amy J. Grizzle,
Lauren Babits,
Courtney Clark,
Ann M. Taylor,
Daniel C. Malone
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2010.007609
Subject(s) - pharmacy , drug , clinical decision support system , drug drug interaction , clinical pharmacy , medicine , decision support system , software , pharmacology , computer science , data mining , family medicine , programming language
Pharmacy clinical decision-support (CDS) software that contains drug-drug interaction (DDI) information may augment pharmacists' ability to detect clinically significant interactions. However, studies indicate these systems may miss some important interactions. The purpose of this study was to assess the performance of pharmacy CDS programs to detect clinically important DDIs.
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