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Clinical risk management of herb–drug interactions
Author(s) -
De Smet Peter A. G. M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
british journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.216
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1365-2125
pISSN - 0306-5251
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2006.02797.x
Subject(s) - medicine , risk assessment , intensive care medicine , drug , risk analysis (engineering) , herb , adverse effect , risk management , pharmacology , medicinal herbs , traditional medicine , business , computer science , computer security , finance
The concomitant use of conventional and herbal medicines can lead to clinically relevant herb–drug interactions. Clinical risk management offers a systematic approach to minimize the untoward consequences of these interactions by paying attention to: (i) risk identification and assessment; (ii) development and execution of risk reduction strategies; and (iii) evaluation of risk reduction strategies. This paper reviews which steps should be explored or taken in these domains to improve the clinical risk management of adverse herb–drug interactions.