SE I have on many occasions been asked about drug interactions from patients at the community pharmacy where I work. As a student pharmacist intern I formulate an answer and then present it to the pharmacist in charge before proceeding with the patient. Many times the questions are not that in depth and require no additional resources.
A few times we have had questions involving multiple drugs that require evaluating a patient’s complete medication profile. At these times I like to use the CP Onhand or Thompson’s Clinical Xpert Drug Interaction tools. If the question does not involve any OTC or alternative meds I will usually use CP Onhand because it has more complete explanations. If, on the other hand, the patients question involves alternative or OTC meds I will use the Clinical Xpert interaction resource. While I look up the information on my PDA the pharmacist is looking at a paper version of the LexiComp handbook.
In all cases we have derived the same drug interaction results from both resources.
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TL: I love using my PDA for issues like looking up drug interactions. I like to use 2 sources so use both CPOnhand and Clinical Xpert.
While I am at work though, I tend to use the hard copy of the LexiComp handbook that one of the pharmacist's provides. The computers are often being used to process prescriptions so are not readily available.
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