Risk of drug interaction: combination of antidepressants and other drugs

Revista de Saúde Pública

Lincoln Sakiara Miyasaka¹  Alvaro Nagib Atallah¹ 

[1],Universidade Federal de São PauloSão Paulo SP ,Brasil

关键词: Drug interactions;    Antidepressive agents;    Drug utilization;    Risk assessment;    Prescriptions;    drug;    Interações de medicamentos;    Antidepressivos;    Uso de medicamentos;    Medição de risco;    Prescricao de medicamentos;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-89102003000200008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of combination of antidepressants with other drugs and risk of drug interactions in the setting public hospital units in Brazil. METHODS: Prescriptions of all patients admitted to a public hospital from November 1996 to February 1997 were surveyed from the hospital's data processing center in São Paulo, Brazil. A manual search of case notes of all patients admitted to the psychiatric unit from January 1993 to December 1995 and all patients registered in the affective disorders outpatient clinic in December 1996 was carried out. Patients taking any antidepressant were identified and concomitant use of drugs was checked. By means of a software program (Micromedex®) drug interactions were identified. RESULTS: Out of 6,844 patients admitted to the hospital, 63 (0.9%) used antidepressants and 16 (25.3%) were at risk of drug interaction. Out of 311 patients in the psychiatric unit, 63 (20.2%) used antidepressants and 13 of them (20.6%) were at risk. Out of 87 patients in the affective disorders outpatient clinic, 43 (49.4%) took antidepressants and 7 (16.2%) were at risk. In general, the use of antidepressants was recorded in 169 patients and 36 (21.3%) were at risk of drug interactions. Twenty different forms of combinations at risk of drug interactions were identified: four were classified as mild, 15 moderate and one severe interaction. CONCLUSION: In the hospital general units the number of drug interactions per patient was higher than in the psychiatric unit; and prescription for depression was lower than expected.

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