Coprescribing and Codispensing of Cisapride and Contraindicated Drugs
| Autor: | Judith K. Jones, Marjorie Shannon, Earl L. Goehring, Daniel Fife, Jeff J. Guo, Suellen Curkendall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Male Drug Drug Utilization medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Pharmacy Drug Prescriptions Gastrointestinal Agents medicine Humans Drug Interactions Medical prescription Child Contraindication Aged Retrospective Studies media_common Pharmacies Cisapride business.industry Contraindications Heartburn Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged Surgery Emergency medicine Female medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | JAMA. 286:1607 |
| ISSN: | 0098-7484 |
| Popis: | ContextCisapride, an oral prokinetic drug indicated for the symptomatic treatment of nocturnal heartburn due to gastroesophageal reflux disease, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in July 1993. After reports of serious cardiac arrhythmias and deaths during administration of cisapride, most involving concomitant exposure to another drug, a series of label changes and warnings were issued in February 1995, October 1995, June 1998, and June 1999. Cisapride was removed from general distribution in July 2000.ObjectiveTo determine the frequency of contraindicted coprescribing and codispensings, in which cisapride and a contraindicated drug were prescribed or dispensed to the same patient for overlapping periods, and the proportion of contraindicated coprescribing by the same physicians and codispensing by the same pharmacies.Design and SettingRetrospective study of prescription claims from a managed care organization database for all patients with cisapride prescriptions between July 1993 and December 1998.ParticipantsA total of 38 757 adult and pediatric patients who had a cisapride prescription immediately preceded by at least 60 days of insurance eligibility.Main Outcome MeasureProportion of cisapride prescriptions or dispensing occurring during the same treatment period as a drug contraindicated at that time prescribed by the same physicians or dispensed by the same pharmacies.ResultsOf 131 485 cisapride prescriptions dispensed after the warnings began, 4414 (3.4%) overlapped with at least 1 drug contraindicated in the labeling at the time of the prescription. Of all overlapping prescription pairs, 2190 (50%) were by the same physicians, 3908 (89%) were by the same pharmacies, and 765 (17%) were dispensed on the same day.ConclusionPrescriptions dispensed by the same pharmacies accounted for a far higher proportion of contraindicated medication pairs than prescriptions from the same physicians. The pharmacy may be an important and underutilized intervention point to prevent contraindicated drugs from being used together. |
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