Admin What is drug duplication?
Abstract. Therapeutic duplication is the practice of prescribing multiple medications for the same indication or purpose without a clear distinction of when one agent should be administered over another.
What happens when there is a therapeutic duplication?
Therapeutic duplication may lead to an unintended overdose of medication, as well as potential adverse drug reactions.
What is an example of a drug drug interaction?
A drug-drug reaction is when there’s an interaction between two or more prescription drugs. One example is the interaction between warfarin (Coumadin), an anticoagulant (blood thinner), and fluconazole (Diflucan), an antifungal medication.
What does duplicate orders mean?
Duplicate medication orders (“duplicates”) were defined for the study as two or more active orders for the identical medication regardless of dose.
What is the generic name for verelan?
Verapamil is used to treat high blood pressure. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and kidney problems. Verapamil belongs to a class of drugs known as calcium channel blockers.
What is the drug Cascade?
Prescription cascade is the process whereby the side effects of drugs are misdiagnosed as symptoms of another problem, resulting in further prescriptions and further side effects and unanticipated drug interactions, which itself may lead to further symptoms and further misdiagnoses.
What is another name for polypharmacy?
What is another word for polypharmacy?
| multidrug regimen | multiple drug prescribing |
|---|---|
| multidrug therapy | multiple drug therapy |
What are the four different types of drug drug interactions?
Classifying drug–drug interactions mechanistically gives major insights into how to predict, detect, and avoid them:
- Pharmaceutical interactions.
- Pharmacokinetic interactions.
- Absorption.
- Distribution (protein binding, tissue binding)
- Metabolism (hepatic, nonhepatic)
- Excretion (renal, nonrenal)
Can I keep a duplicate order?
You have the legal right to keep it as a free gift, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Sellers aren’t permitted to ask for payment for unordered items, either, and the FTC says consumers are under no obligation to even tell the seller about the wrongly delivered merchandise.