Potentially clinically significant drug-drug interactions in older patients admitted to the hospital: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Background: An international consensus list of potentially clinically significant drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in older people has been recently validated. Our objective was to describe the prevalence and characteristics of drug combinations potentially causing clinically significant DDIs identified in the medication history of older patients admitted to the hospital and the prevalence and characteristics of manifest DDIs-DDIs involved in adverse drug events present at hospital admission, DDIs that contributed to ADE-related hospital admissions, and DDIs involved in drug-related laboratory deviations. Methods: The data were obtained from our previous study that examined the drug-relatedness of hospital admissions to University Hospital Hradec Králové via the departmen

SUBMITTER: Ocovska Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932507 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature