Improving the specificity of drug-drug interaction alerts: can it be done?

Thomas Reese; Adam Wright; Siru Liu; Richard Boyce; Andrew Romero V; Guilherme Del Fiol; Kensaku Kawamoto; Daniel C. Malone

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Improving the specificity of drug-drug interaction alerts: can it be done?

April 6, 2022

Reese T, Wright A, Liu S, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2022;79(13):1086-1095.

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Computerized decision support alerts for drug-drug interactions are commonly overridden by clinicians. This study examined fifteen well-known drug-drug interactions and identified risk factors that could reduce risk in the majority of interactions (e.g., medication order timing, medication dose, and patient factors).

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