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Potentially Serious Drug Interactions Resulting From the Pretravel Health Encounter

Travelers seen for pretravel health encounters are frequently prescribed new travel-related medications, which may interact with their previously prescribed medications. In a cohort of 76 324 travelers seen at 23 US clinics, we found that 2650 (3.5%) travelers were prescribed travel-related medicati...

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Autores principales: Sbaih, Nadine, Buss, Brian, Goyal, Dheeraj, Rao, Sowmya R, Benefield, Russell, Walker, Allison Taylor, Esposito, Douglas H, Ryan, Edward T, LaRocque, Regina C, Leung, Daniel T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6239081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30465013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy266
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author Sbaih, Nadine
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description Travelers seen for pretravel health encounters are frequently prescribed new travel-related medications, which may interact with their previously prescribed medications. In a cohort of 76 324 travelers seen at 23 US clinics, we found that 2650 (3.5%) travelers were prescribed travel-related medications with potential for serious drug interactions.
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spelling pubmed-62390812018-11-21 Potentially Serious Drug Interactions Resulting From the Pretravel Health Encounter Sbaih, Nadine Buss, Brian Goyal, Dheeraj Rao, Sowmya R Benefield, Russell Walker, Allison Taylor Esposito, Douglas H Ryan, Edward T LaRocque, Regina C Leung, Daniel T Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Travelers seen for pretravel health encounters are frequently prescribed new travel-related medications, which may interact with their previously prescribed medications. In a cohort of 76 324 travelers seen at 23 US clinics, we found that 2650 (3.5%) travelers were prescribed travel-related medications with potential for serious drug interactions. Oxford University Press 2018-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6239081/ /pubmed/30465013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy266 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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