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The percentage of individuals who received a prescription for a target medication during the measurement year and who were dispensed a concurrent prescription for a precipitant medication.
' + 'A lower rate indicates better performance.
' + 'Intended Use
' + 'Performance measurement for health plans.
' + 'Data Sources
' + 'Prescription claims data.
' + 'Denominator
' + 'Individuals with a prescription claim for a target medication during the measurement year.
' + 'Exclusions
' + 'None.
' + 'Numerator
' + 'Individuals in the denominator who were dispensed a concurrent precipitant medication during the measurement period.
' + 'Exposure to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is a significant cause of preventable drug-related harm.
The safety concern posed by DDIs will continue to grow in importance as the complexity and uniqueness of medication regimens increases with the aging population.
This measure was designed for monitoring and improving quality of care across populations of patients in health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmacy systems. DDIs included in this measure are drug pairs for which serious adverse effects have been reported or may be expected based on known pharmacology of the drugs involved. Therefore, co-prescription of the selected drug pairs has an unfavorable balance of benefits and harms for many, if not most, individuals, particularly in light of available pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic alternatives. In some cases, the drug pairs are almost always a poor choice. However, there are individuals in whom combined use of these medications may be appropriate. Thus, the drug pairs are a potential serious safety concern (i.e., potentially inappropriate) and merit special scrutiny, but are not universally unsafe or inappropriate in all patients. Furthermore, this should be considered a subset, not a comprehensive list, of DDIs that are a potential serious safety concern.
' + '