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Drug–drug Interactions Between Antibiotics and Psychopharmaceuticals in Slovenian Nursing Homes: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study from a National Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Stuhec
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
P. Ines
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmacy Ljubljana, Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
D. Stepan
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
U. Lea
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
M. Petek Ster
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
B. Beović
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

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Background

Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) between antibiotics and psychopharmaceuticals in large national data have not been described yet.

Objectives

In most European countries, there is no national data on DDIs in patients within nursing homes.

Aim

To present the most important DDIs in the Slovenian nursing homes to avoid serious DDIs in the future.

Methods

A retrospective study was carried in 2015 and with 233 patient on antibiotic treatment. All study data from the patients’ records were obtained from the patients’ charts. DDIs were determined by different interaction classes with Lexicomp Online™ 19.0 version and only X (major interactions) and D (minor interactions) were included.

Results

A total of 233 patients (age = 83.5, SD = 9.8) were treated with antibiotics (only 2 without psychopharmaceuticals). The number of patients with at least 1 interaction was: 72 (30.9%) for X and 172 (73.8%) for D and the average number of medication/patient was 10.9 (SD = 3.9). Twenty-seven patients (11.5%) were treated with at least 1 X DDIs s (17 patients ciprofloxacin, 6 moxifloxacin, 3 azithromycin and 1 levofloxacin). Quetiapine and ciprofloxacin was most frequent DDIs occured in 12 patients. Twenty-seven DDIs were pharmacodynamic (QTc prolongation) and 3 pharmacokinetic (ciprofloxacin-tizanidine, ciprofloxacin and duloxetine in 2 patients; n = 3). Quetiapine was most frequent prescribed psychopharmaceutical in X DDIs.

Conclusions

DDIs between these two groups are seen very often. If an antidepressant should be used in these patients, we recommend sertraline instead of escitalopram and venlafaxine instead of duloxetine and mirtazapine instead of quetiapine. We also recommend a use of penicilins instead of ciprofloxacin and azithromycin.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster walk: Old-age psychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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