Title: Discordance between ambulatory care clinic and community pharmacy medication databases for HIV-positive patients
Abstract: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a major cause of morbidity in the primary care setting. 1. Avery A.J. Sheikh A. Hurwitz B. et al. Safer medicines management in primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2002; 52 (suppl): S17-S22 PubMed Google Scholar Patients with medical conditions that require multiple medications experience more ADEs and drug-related morbidity and mortality than patients taking fewer medications. 2. Nguyen J.K. Fouts M.M. Kotabe S.E. et al. Polypharmacy as a risk factor for adverse drug reactions in geriatric nursing home residents. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006; 4: 36-41 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (201) Google Scholar ,3. Frazier S.C. Health outcomes and polypharmacy in elderly individuals: an integrated literature review. J Gerontol Nurs. 2005; 31: 4-11 Crossref PubMed Google Scholar More than 50% of hospital admissions secondary to medication-associated problems are potentially preventable. 4. Winterstein A.G. Sauer B.C. Hepler C.D. Poole C. Preventable drug-related hospital admissions. Ann Pharmacother. 2002; 36: 1238-1248 Crossref PubMed Scopus (229) Google Scholar Treatment of HIV infection is generally associated with a large pill burden as a result of combination medication regimen use for highly active antiretroviral therapy. 5. DHHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Guidelines for using antiretroviral agents among HIV-1-infected adults and adolescents. November 6, 2006; (Accessed at)http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/AdultandAdolescentGL.pdf Google Scholar ,6. U.S. Public Health Service, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for the preventing opportunistic infections among HIV-infected persons. 2002; (Accessed at) (November 6, 2006)http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/OIpreventionGL.pdf Google Scholar
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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