Prescription of high-risk medications among patients with chronic kidney disease: A cross-sectional study from the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho region Practice and Research Network
Family Practice Mar 27, 2018
Guirguis-Blake J, et al. - The authors here aimed at determining the scope of and variation in prescribing relatively contraindicated medications and medications above the recommended dose levels among patients with stage III/IV chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care practice. They observed that primary care patients with stage III/IV CKD were frequently prescribed or had documented use of relatively contraindicated drugs. Thereby suggesting these patients be at risk of adverse drug events. In the USA, a significant number of individuals with CKD were noted, highlighting the necessity for a research that examines rates of adverse events related to these prescriptions and that tests primary care-based interventions to decrease inappropriate prescribing of relatively contraindicated medications to these patients.
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