Drug-disease and drug-drug interactions: systematic examination of recommendations in 12 UK national clinical guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the number of drug-disease and drug-drug interactions for exemplar index conditions within National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines.

Design

Systematic identification, quantification, and classification of potentially serious drug-disease and drug-drug interactions for drugs recommended by NICE clinical guidelines for type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and depression in relation to 11 other common conditions and drugs recommended by NICE guidelines for those conditions.

Setting

NICE clinical guidelines for type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and depression

Main outcome measures

Potentially serious drug-disease and drug-drug interactions.

Results

Following recommendations for prescription in 12 national cli

SUBMITTER: Dumbreck S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356453 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature