Assessment of Medication Dosage Adjustment in Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.
chronic kidney disease
dose adjustment
medication errors
renal impairment
Journal
Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Feb 2021
20 Feb 2021
Historique:
entrez:
26
3
2021
pubmed:
27
3
2021
medline:
27
3
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Background Inappropriate medication dosing can cause adverse drug reactions or ineffective therapy due to declined renal function in patients with renal insufficiency. This necessitates proper renal dose adjustment. This study was proposed to evaluate medication dosage adjustment in hospitalized chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Methods This study included all CKD patients hospitalized between May 1, 2019, and April 25, 2020, at the Institute of Kidney Disease, Peshawar, Pakistan. The estimated glomerular filtration rate was calculated using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula, and dose appropriateness was established by evaluating practice with relevant reference books. Results Of the total 1,537 CKD patients, 231 (15.03%) had evidence of dosing error, which was considered for final analysis. Overall, 1,549 drugs were prescribed; 480 (30.99%) drugs required dose adjustment, of which 196 (40.42%) were adjusted properly and the remaining 286 (59.58%) were unadjusted. The most common unadjusted drugs were meropenem, cefepime, ciprofloxacin, and rosuvastatin, whereas captopril, aspirin, bisoprolol, pregabalin, and levofloxacin had the highest percentage of adjusted drugs. On multivariate logistic regression, the number of drugs requiring dosing adjustments and obstructive nephropathy were found to be statistically significant factors that increased the likelihood of the medication dosing errors: a unit increase in the number of drugs requiring dose adjustment increases 5.241 times the likelihood of dosing error. Similarly, the presence of obstructive nephropathy (OR: 0.383; 95% Cl: 0.153-0.960; p = 0.041) was found to be significantly associated with dosing error after adjustment for potential confounding factors. Conclusion The dosing of more than half of the prescribed drugs that required adjustment in CKD patients was not adjusted, which showed that medication dosing errors were high. This highlights the importance of medication prescription according to guidelines in these patients to improve the outcomes of pharmacotherapy.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33767933
doi: 10.7759/cureus.13449
pmc: PMC7982869
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e13449Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021, Hassan et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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