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Drug Utilization Review Of Anticancer Drugs With Otherdrugs In Breast Cancer Patients, Mahadev Rao Dr
Drug Utilization Review Of Anticancer Drugs With Otherdrugs In Breast Cancer Patients, Mahadev Rao Dr
Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Theses and Dissertations
Background: To study the prescribing pattern of chemotherapeutic drugs in Breast Cancer patients and to survey the prevalence of exigent drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between chemotherapeutic drugs and non-chemotherapeutic drugs and evaluate the risk factors associated with these drug-drug interactions in India. Methods: All discharged patients’ data in the Department of Oncology were collected from September 2019 to March 2020 with the help of Hospital Information System and inpatient file of the breast cancer patients collected from the Medical Records Department. Drugs were screened for interactions by Micromedex solutions database and Epocrates database. Descriptive statistics were generated and was used to …