Study Finds Holes in Pharmacists' Usual References on Drug Interactions

Researchers acting at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were dismayed to find in a recent study that some of pharmacists' most widely used reference sources provide little common guidance on the most serious drug-drug interactions (DDIs).

In an article published in the March/April issue of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, authors Jacob Abarca, et al. reported that pharmacists who rely on only one or two of the most common references to check for serious drug interactions may have difficulty finding them.

'Little agreement exists among commonly used drug interaction compendia for …