McKnight's January 5, 2024
New research sheds light on how clinicians anticipate drug interactions and make choices about them. Understanding this is especially helpful for older adults who may be on multiple medications.
The investigators evaluated cases between 2013 and 2015 in which drug interactions existed, then assessed how the clinicians responded including tools they used to determine risk and those designed to pinpoint safer treatment options. Of the 45 doctors and pharmacists who participated, six of them didn’t have safety incidents to report.
“Drug-drug interactions are very common, more common than a lot of people outside the healthcare system expect,” said Michael Weiner, MD, a doctor with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, in...
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