United States Emergency Department Use of Medications with Pharmacogenetic Recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency departments (ED) use many medications with a range of therapeutic efficacy and potential significant side effects, and many medications have dosage adjustment recommendations based on the patient's specific genotype. How frequently medications with such pharmaco-genetic recommendations are used in United States (US) EDs has not been studied.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of the 2010-2015 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). We reported the proportion of ED visits in which at least one medication with Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) recommendation of Level A or B evidence was ordered. Secondary comparisons included distributions and 95% confidence intervals of age, gender, race/ethnicity

SUBMITTER: Limkakeng AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8597689 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature