Drug Interaction Information in the Package Insert

Attitudes of Pharmacists towards Patient Package Insert in Iranian Drug Packages

 Background and purpose: A drug brochure or Patient Package Insert (PPI) is a sheet of paper in drug package that provides necessary information for effective and afe use of drugs. PPIs are among the main sources of drug information for general public, so, they should be clear and comprehensible. The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of pharmacists about PPIs in Iranian drug pac...

Nifedipine Package Insert

Nifedipine GITS Package Insert

Using Natural Language Processing to Extract Drug-Drug Interaction Information from Package Inserts

The package insert (aka drug product label) is the only publicly-available source of information on drug-drug interactions (DDIs) for some drugs, especially newer ones. Thus, an automated method for identifying DDIs in drug package inserts would be a potentially important complement to methods for identifying DDIs from other sources such as the scientific literature. To develop such an algorith...

[Drug package inserts and the adequacy of patient's drug information].

OBJECTIVE To investigate the adequacy of the content and format of the patient information section in package inserts of commonly prescribed drugs at the internal medicine service of a school hospital. METHODS Forty eight package inserts were collected from six pharmacies of the city of Porto Alegre in June 1998. The presence of mandatory notification and other information required by Brazili...