Randhawa Gurpreet Kaur, Sharma Rajeev, Singh Navyug Raj, Sharma Nidhi
Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Department of Medicine, Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Government Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Int J Appl Basic Med Res. 2017 Oct-Dec;7(4):223-227. doi: 10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_18_17.
For safe use of medicines, awareness regarding the existing knowledge of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is essential to prevent, identify, and manage them.
The present study is planned to assess variation in documented ADRs of antihypertensive drugs in various sources of drug information.
A cross-sectional, observational study was undertaken to analyze the different sources of ADRs-related information. Textbooks, National Formulary India (NFI), Drug Today (DT), and Current Index of Medical Specialties (CIMS) were analyzed for ADRs pertaining to nine antihypertensive groups comprising a total of 44 drugs. ADRs were categorized according to body systems, tabulated, and compared. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of ADRs and serious ADRs were done.
Textbooks mostly provided ADRs of drug groups as a whole and not of individual drugs. None of the analyzed sources mentioned all antihypertensive drugs. DT contained information for the maximum number of drugs studied (81.8%) and NFI gave information for 29.7% drugs only. There was a wide variability among various resources while listing ADRs. NFI listed the maximum number of total ADRs, and least ADR information was provided by DT. NFI mentioned the maximum number of serious ADRs (47) for prototype drugs followed by CIMS (36) and DT (8). The quality of data was better in NFI, but none of the resources studied were found to be complete.
No source of information was complete in providing wholesome information of ADRs studied, and there was a wide variability in describing them.
为安全用药,了解现有药物不良反应(ADR)知识对于预防、识别和处理这些反应至关重要。
本研究旨在评估不同药物信息来源中抗高血压药物记录的ADR差异。
开展一项横断面观察性研究,以分析与ADR相关信息的不同来源。对教科书、《印度国家处方集》(NFI)、《今日药物》(DT)和《医学专业当前索引》(CIMS)中涉及9个抗高血压药物组(共44种药物)的ADR进行分析。ADR按身体系统分类、列表并比较。对ADR和严重ADR进行了定量和定性分析。
教科书大多提供药物组整体的ADR,而非个别药物的ADR。所有分析来源均未提及所有抗高血压药物。DT包含所研究药物的最大数量信息(81.8%),而NFI仅提供29.7%药物的信息。在列出ADR时,各资源之间存在很大差异。NFI列出的ADR总数最多,DT提供的ADR信息最少。NFI提到原型药物的严重ADR数量最多(47种),其次是CIMS(36种)和DT(8种)。NFI的数据质量较好,但所研究的资源均不完整。
在所研究的ADR信息来源中,没有一个能完整提供全面信息,且在描述这些信息时存在很大差异。