Potential drug-drug interactions in oncological adult inpatients at a Spanish hospital : epidemiology and risk factors

BACKGROUND: Oncological patients are at high risk for drug-drug interactions (DDIs), which may contribute to therapeutic failure or lead to serious adverse events.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of potential DDIs in medication lists, to describe the most frequent DDIs and to investigate the possible risk factors associated with them. A prospective cohort study was performed at the Oncology Department of a tertiary hospital over a 12-week period. Twice a week, every inpatient's treatment sheet was collected and screened through two databases: Micromedex™ and Drug Interaction Facts™. All identified potential DDIs with a moderate or higher severity rating were recorded. Multivariate analysis was used to identify risk factors associated with DDIs.

RESULT: A total of 1956 DDIs were detected in 699 treatment sheets. The prevalence of treatment sheets with DDIs was 81.0 % and 32.6 % by Micromedex™ and Drug Interaction Facts™, respectively. Central nervous depressant agents and antiemetics were the most commonly involved groups in DDIs. A higher number of non-antineoplastic drugs was related with potential DDIs [adjusted-OR 1.398 and 1.613 by Micromedex™ and Drug Interaction Facts™, respectively]. CONCLUSION The prevalence of potential DDIs was widely variable among databases. The main risk factor associated with DDIs was a higher number of non-antineoplastic medicines.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

International journal of clinical pharmacy - 37(2015), 6 vom: 22. Dez., Seite 1021-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fernández de Palencia Espinosa, M Ángeles [VerfasserIn]
Díaz Carrasco, M Sacramento [VerfasserIn]
Alonso Romero, José Luis [VerfasserIn]
de la Rubia Nieto, Amelia [VerfasserIn]
Espuny Miró, Alberto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adult
Antiemetics
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic agent
Central Nervous System Depressants
Drug-drug interaction
Inpatient
Journal Article
Spain

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Date Completed 29.07.2016

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11096-015-0195-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM252959493