Medicine are meant to help but when it self interacts with each other it becomes dangerous. Drug interactions a hot topic amongst healthcare professionals these days is affecting millions of patients and common people.
Drug interactions occur when one medication alters the affect of another either resulting in therapeutic benefit for example:- (levodopa + carbidopa) or resulting in unintended interaction like (Warfarin+ NSAIDs) causing excessive bleeding.
Main reason of growing of these cases is poly pharmacy that is prescribing and dispensing of multiple medicines at onces.
To counter this hospitals worldwide have adopted Clinical Decision Support System (CDDS) integrated into prescribing workflow. This are meant to auto screen new prescription for possible interactions and contraindications. CDDS significantly reduces medication errors and leads to high user satisfaction and improved alerts management.
Any thought on CDDS and growing drug-drug interactions??
MBH/PS