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Objective: Analyzing drug interactions in outpatient treatment at Thot Not District General Hospital in 2020.Subjects and methods: cross-sectional study on 400 prescriptions for insured patients with outpatient medical records at Thot Not general hospital from January 1st, 2020 to June 30th, 2020.Results: Five pairs of clinically significant drug interactions were recorded with the databases used in the study. The rate of prescription of drug interactions with clinical significance was 11%. The number of prescriptions with a drug interaction accounted for the highest proportion (10.8%) and only one prescription with two drug interactions detected (0.2%). The pair of drug interactions thatappeared with the most frequency were clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors (34.1%), followed by interactions between aspirin and NSAIDs (25%), interactions between codeine and clopheniramin(20.4%). There was no relationship between the patient’s age and the ability of drug interactions (p> 0.05) but there was an association between the sex and the amount of drugs used in the prescriptionand the ability of drug interactions was statistically significant (p |
