STATUS OF PRESCRIBING AND DRUG INTERACTIONS AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION DEPARTMENT, CARDIOLOGY HOSPITAL OF CAN THO CITY IN 2021

Trương Phú Dương 1,, Hồng Sở Võ 2, Tuấn Kiệt Nguyễn1, Thị Diễm Trinh Nguyễn1, Vĩnh Niên Lâm 3, Hoàng Vĩnh Thụy Lê3
1 Cantho Medical College
2 Cantho Heart Hospital
3 University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City

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Research: Analyze the current situation and some factors related to drug interactions  at two health insurance and service clinics at the Cardiology Hospital of Can Tho City in 2021. Methods: Research and survey 400 prescriptions at the medical examination department - Can Tho City Cardiology Hospital in 2021, using at least 1 reputable web source to evaluate Micromedex, looking for the second source Lexicomp and Web MD to come. with consistent results. Results: There were a total of 178 prescriptions out of 400 outpatient prescriptions surveyed, accounting for 44.5%. This includes 43.0% of drug interactions applications in health insurance and 46.0% in services. There are 8.8% lookup identical drug interactions from 2 databases and 14.3% identical drug interactions in all 3 databases. Analyze the rate of interactive database lookup related to the level of prescribers, health clinics that are covered by health insurance or services and the number of diagnosed diseases. With the number of diseases diagnosed, the higher the number of diseases, the higher the rate of drug interactions from 2 or more interactive lookup databases (p<0.05). Conclusion: Strengthening drug information and clinical pharmacology activities to avoid overdiagnosing and prescribing many drugs in one outpatient prescription.

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