Facing the Issue of Drug Interactions in Elderly Depressed Patients

1998 ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
L.F. Gram ◽  
J.-U. Rosholm ◽  
J. Hallas
Keyword(s):  
Drug Interactions ◽  
Depressed Patients

USING ASSOCIATION RULES TO STUDY PATTERNS OF MEDICINE USE IN THAI ADULT DEPRESSED PATIENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (5-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chumpoonuch Sukontavaree ◽  
Verayuth Lertnattee
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Drug Interactions ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Association Rules ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Popular Medicine ◽  
Depressed Patients

Depression is a mental disorder which is characterized by feeling of guilt, suicidal tendencies and disturbed bodily functions. In 2002, depression is ranked as the fourth of disease burden in worldwide and it will be changed to the second rank in 2030. Furthermore, more than 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. Clinician staffs must take care of patients closely because these patients have medication adherence problem. To alleviate this problem, an adherence training program is introduced. Due to the limitation of budget and clinical stuffs, it is hard to educate all depressed patients. To deal with this problem, a method for finding rules of medicine use is proposed in three steps, The first step is finding the commonly used medicines with their adherences. In the second step, two groups of patients are classified, i.e., adherence and non-adherence groups for each commonly used medicines. For the last step, association rules are applied on each group of patients. From results, fluoxetine is a popular medicine for treatment depression. The numbers of medicines for a non-adherent group are more than those of an adherent group. Several patterns of drug interactions are found. These patterns should be reported to clinical staffs. In conclusion, results from the proposed method are applied for selecting a set of patients and drugs, which are filled in the adherence training program.

Fluoxetine Treatment of Depressed Patients with HIV Infection

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona K. Judd ◽  
Anne M. Mijch ◽  
Alex Cockram
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Drug Interactions ◽  
Open Study ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Fluoxetine Treatment ◽  
Treatment Of Depression

Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the outcome of fluoxetine treatment of depressed patients with HIV infection. Method: An open study was made of 20 patients with varying stages of HIV infection treated for depression with fluoxetine. Results: 15 of 20 patients improved with fluoxetine treatment; the drug was generally well tolerated, with no significant drug-drug interactions. Conclusions: Fluoxetine appears to be effective for the treatment of depression in patients with HIV infection.

Derm Drug Interactions: Top Ten to Watch For

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
NANCY WALSH
Keyword(s):  
Drug Interactions
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