Identifying Common Methods Used by Drug Interaction Experts for Finding Evidence About Potential Drug-Drug Interactions: Web-Based Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing drug interactions is an important goal to maximize patient benefit from medications. Summarizing potential drug-drug interactions (PDDIs) for clinical decision support is challenging, and there is no single repository for PDDI evidence. Additionally, inconsistencies across compendia and other sources have been well documented. Standard search strategies for complete and current evidence about PDDIs have not heretofore been developed or validated.

Objective

This study aimed to identify common methods for conducting PDDI literature searches used by experts who routinely evaluate such evidence.

Methods

We invited a convenience sample of 70 drug information experts, including compendia editors, knowledge-base vendors, and clinicians, via emails to co

SUBMITTER: Grizzle AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682289 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature