Open AccessAre drug-drug interactions a real clinical concern?
Author(s) -
Saibal Das,
Sapan Kumar Behera,
Alphienes Stanley Xavier,
Subrahmanyam Dharanipragada,
Sandhiya Selvarajan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
perspectives in clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2229-5488
pISSN - 2229-3485
DOI - 10.4103/picr.picr_55_18
Subject(s) - polypharmacy , medicine , drug , medical prescription , drug reaction , incidence (geometry) , adverse effect , intensive care medicine , pharmacology , emergency medicine , physics , optics
Although drug-drug interactions (DDIs) cause major adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in patients under polypharmacy, the risk of some specific DDIs may be overrated in literature and different software. This study was conducted to determine the frequency and type of potential and clinically significant DDIs among inpatients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in South India.