Drug-drug interactions in cardiac and cardiothoracic intensive care units: An analysis of patients in an academic medical centre in the US

Drug Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 879-888

  Smithburger, Pamela L ^a   Kane Gill, Sandra L ^a,b   Seybert, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

computers; drug interactions; intensive care units; prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ATAZANAVIR; ATORVASTATIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BISACODYL; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITALOPRAM; CLOPIDOGREL; CYTOCHROME P450; DULOXETINE; FAMOTIDINE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; INSULIN; KETOROLAC; LINEZOLID; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORADRENALIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; RANOLAZINE; SIMVASTATIN; TACROLIMUS; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956298758     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11532340-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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