Drug-Disease Checking

When a new medication is prescribed, Clinical checks for drug-disease interactions. The diseases that have been added to the patient's past medical history are compared to a hard-coded condition list. Clinical gives specific contraindications, precautions, and warning statements when any MDref -listed drug is prescribed, if the patient has any disease noted in the Product Information documents currently available.

It is possible to view the current list of drug-disease interactions for a particular drug via MDref. Within MDref, click

to see the list of interactions checked against when that drug is prescribed. This information is updated every time the MDref drug database is updated.