The Drug Interactions tool helps you check for interacting drugs, their effects, and clinical significance. With the correct information at the point of care, a significant number of adverse drug events can be prevented.
The interactions tool provides instant access to drug-drug, drug-food, drug-ethanol, and drug-lab test reactions (drug-tobacco, drug-pregnancy, and drug-lactation available with a subscription to DRUG-REAX®).
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NOTE: Customers subscribing to the DRUG-REAX System will see functionality and links not displayed to non-subscribers. For example, DRUG-REAX customers are able to add patient allergies into the drugs to check and the allergy is calculated against all other drugs in the list. They will also see drug-tobacco, drug-pregnancy,
and drug-lactation interaction information. |
Checks one or more drugs for interaction information
Groups results by interaction type: drug-drug, drug-food, drug-lab, etc.
Interactions found within each type are sorted by severity
The strength of the documentation
behind each interaction is shown
Type the first drug (brand or generic) in the Enter Search Term field. If you are unsure of the spelling, just type as many characters as you know.
As you type, the application narrows the list of search results based on the characters typed. The more characters typed, the more focused (fewer) the results. The number of matches to the drug name is also updated as you type.
If the drug you are interested in is listed in the Matching Drug Names list, do one of the following to add the drug to the Drugs to Check list:
Double-click the item - or -
Click on the item and
then click the 
button -
or -
Click on the item and press the Enter key
Repeat these steps
until you have all the drugs you wish to check for interactions in
the Drugs to Check list.
If you wish to remove
a drug from the Drugs to Check
list, double-click the drug, or select the drug by clicking it, then
remove it from the list by clicking the 
button.
Patient allergies can be added to the list to check the drugs against the allergy:
Click the Add Allergies... button to open
the allergy window.
Type the first drug
(brand or generic) in the Enter Allergy
field.
If you are unsure of the spelling, just type as many characters as
you know.
If the drug the patient is allergic to is listed in the Matching
Allergies list, , do one of the following to add the allergy
to the Allergies to Check
list:
Double-click on the item - or -
Click on the item and
then click the button -
or -
Click on the item and
press the Enter key
Repeat this until
all patient drug allergies have been added to the allergy list, then
click the Add Allergies button
to return to the Drug Interactions page.
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NOTE: You
will notice that the allergies entered appear with asterisks
(*) in the Drugs to Check list in capital letters. |
When all drugs and
allergies to check are in the Drugs
to Check list, click the SUBMIT
button.
If you want to remove all drugs from the Drugs to Check list and start over, click the Clear button.
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