Easy Search Results - Drug-Drug Interaction

Easy Search Results - Drug-Drug Interaction

Drugs Checked

Drugs Checked

Drug-Drug Interaction

The Easy Search query Drug-Drug Interaction with Professional Monograph information will display any Drug-Drug Interactions that apply to any combination of the drugs searched (both FDB and VA records). Click Link to record in PECS to display the record in the standard PECS application where it can be further processed.

Easy Search DDI Results

Professional Monograph

Any associated Professional Monographs to those Drug-Drug Interactions will be listed after the Drug-Drug Interaction information. Click the + symbol to expand the Professional Monograph (collapsed by default). If there is no Professional Monograph associated to the Drug-Drug Interaction returned by the Easy Search query, this option will not expand.

PM Assoicatied with the Drug-Drug Interaction

Duplicate Therapy

Duplicate Therapy Results displays the Duplicate Therapy records (both VA and FDB) for the drugs selected in the Drugs to Check box. The record contains the Therapeutic Drug Class that the two drugs belong to and Duplicate Allowance numerical value (0,1,2,3 or 4) followed by a short message stating these two drugs may represent a duplication in therapy. To view the Duplicate Therapy record in PECS, click the Link to record in PECS.

Duplicate Therapy Results

Potential Discrepancy Between Easy Search Results and PECS Records

The custom detail pages in PECS show the custom record as it exists in PECS. These detail pages are accessed through either the Advanced Query/Customization tab, or by clicking the “Link to record in PECS” link found on the Easy Search Results screens.

When you use Easy Search to look up Drug-Drug Interactions or Duplicate Therapy, in the background you are searching a different database table than the one that used to store the actual PECS record. The Easy Search results page shows only data from custom records in an Approved state that have been exported in a custom update and processed by an external process named DATUP. If a custom record hasn’t gone through these steps, you will see the FDB record and there will be a discrepancy.

Also, if a previously approved/exported custom record is updated, Easy Search will not show the updated data in the results page until the record is approved, exported, and processed by DATUP. Instead, Easy Search will show the custom record results that were last uploaded to DATUP.

 

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