Overconsumption of Contrast Media in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Focusing on Cost and Acute Kidney Injury

Overconsumption of Contrast Media in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Focusing on Cost and Acute Kidney Injury

Irrational use of medicines is a major problem worldwide. Since iodixanol (Visipaque®) was categorized in Category I based on the ABC-VED analysis in our hospital, we evaluated the amount of visipaque use and estimated the incremental cost based on the Maximum Contrast Dose (MCD) following irrationa...

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Main Authors: Marziye Jafari, Gohar Eslami, Babak Bagheri, Shirin Asghari Vaskasi, Shafagh Eslami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2019-09-01
Series:Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research
Subjects:
contrast media
irrational use
visipaque
cost
drug utilization reviews
Online Access:http://pbr.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-264-en.html

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