Dangerous and Deadly Drug Combinations Drug Interaction Checker

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  • Douglas S. Paauw
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Drug/drug interactions are considered preventable errors. With the advent of electronic prescribing, the hope was that software would warn prescribers about interactions between one or more drugs that the patient is taking, and these alerts are common. They are so ubiquitous, in fact, that alerts are often overridden in the prescribing process. Clinicians cannot rely on prescribing software to prevent all drugdrug interactions.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016