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Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care
Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. New tools are needed to improve identification and treatment of DDIs. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical utility of a new test to identify DDIs and improve their management. Primary care phys...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30366371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7110384 |
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author | Peabody, John Tran, Mary Paculdo, David Schrecker, Joshua Valdenor, Czarlota Jeter, Elaine |
author_facet | Peabody, John Tran, Mary Paculdo, David Schrecker, Joshua Valdenor, Czarlota Jeter, Elaine |
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description | Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. New tools are needed to improve identification and treatment of DDIs. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical utility of a new test to identify DDIs and improve their management. Primary care physicians (PCPs) cared for simulated patients presenting with DDI symptoms from commonly prescribed medications and other ingestants. All physicians, in either control or one of two intervention groups, cared for six patients over two rounds of assessment. Intervention physicians were educated on the DDI test and given access to these test reports when caring for their patients in the second round. At baseline, we saw no significant differences in making the DDI diagnosis (p = 0.071) or DDI-related treatment (p = 0.640) between control and intervention arms. By round two, providers who accessed the DDI test performed significantly better in making the DDI diagnosis (+41.6%) and performing DDI-specific treatment (+12.2%) than in the previous round, and were 9.8 and 20.4 times more likely to diagnose and identify the DDI (p < 0.001 for all). The introduction of a definitive DDI test significantly increased identification, appropriate management, and counseling of DDIs among PCPs, which has the potential to improve clinical care. |
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spelling | pubmed-62623372018-12-03 Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care Peabody, John Tran, Mary Paculdo, David Schrecker, Joshua Valdenor, Czarlota Jeter, Elaine J Clin Med Article Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. New tools are needed to improve identification and treatment of DDIs. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical utility of a new test to identify DDIs and improve their management. Primary care physicians (PCPs) cared for simulated patients presenting with DDI symptoms from commonly prescribed medications and other ingestants. All physicians, in either control or one of two intervention groups, cared for six patients over two rounds of assessment. Intervention physicians were educated on the DDI test and given access to these test reports when caring for their patients in the second round. At baseline, we saw no significant differences in making the DDI diagnosis (p = 0.071) or DDI-related treatment (p = 0.640) between control and intervention arms. By round two, providers who accessed the DDI test performed significantly better in making the DDI diagnosis (+41.6%) and performing DDI-specific treatment (+12.2%) than in the previous round, and were 9.8 and 20.4 times more likely to diagnose and identify the DDI (p < 0.001 for all). The introduction of a definitive DDI test significantly increased identification, appropriate management, and counseling of DDIs among PCPs, which has the potential to improve clinical care. MDPI 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6262337/ /pubmed/30366371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7110384 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Peabody, John Tran, Mary Paculdo, David Schrecker, Joshua Valdenor, Czarlota Jeter, Elaine Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title | Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title_full | Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title_fullStr | Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title_short | Clinical Utility of Definitive Drug–Drug Interaction Testing in Primary Care |
title_sort | clinical utility of definitive drug–drug interaction testing in primary care |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30366371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7110384 |
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