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Assessment of the scope, completeness, and consistency of various drug information resources related to COVID-19 medications in pregnancy and lactation.
Shareef, Javedh; Sridhar, Sathvik Belagodu; Bhupathyraaj, Mullaicharam; Shariff, Atiqulla; Thomas, Sabin; Salim Karattuthodi, Mohammed.
  • Shareef J; Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, RAK College of Pharmacy, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. javedh@rakmhsu.ac.ae.
  • Sridhar SB; Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, RAK College of Pharmacy, RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
  • Bhupathyraaj M; College of Pharmacy, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, 130, Oman.
  • Shariff A; Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
  • Thomas S; School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, 616, Oman.
  • Salim Karattuthodi M; Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth ; 23(1): 296, 2023 Apr 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2303532
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Drug use in pregnancy and lactation is challenging. It becomes more challenging in pregnant and lactating women with certain critical clinical conditions such as COVID-19, because of inconsistent drug safety data. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the various drug information resources for the scope, completeness, and consistency of the information related to COVID-19 medications in pregnancy and lactation.

METHODS:

Data related to COVID-19 medications from various drug information resources such as text references, subscription databases, and free online tools were used for the comparison. The congregated data were analyzed for scope, completeness, and consistency.

RESULTS:

Scope scores were highest for Portable Electronic Physician Information Database (PEPID), Up-to-date, and drugs.com compared to other resources. The overall completeness scores were higher for Micromedex and drugs.com (p < 0.05 compared to all other resources). The inter-reliability analysis for overall components by Fleiss kappa among all the resources was found to be 'slight' (k < 0.20, p < 0.0001). The information related to the older drugs in most of the resources, provides in-depth details on various components such as pregnancy safety, clinical data related to lactation, the effect of the drug distribution into breast milk, reproductive potential/infertility risk and the pregnancy category/recommendations. However, the information related to these components for newer drugs was superficial and incomplete, with insufficient data and inconclusive evidence, which is a statistically significant observation. The strength of observer agreement for the various COVID-19 medications ranged from poor to fair and moderate for the various recommendation categories studied.

CONCLUSION:

This study reports discrepancies in the information related to pregnancy, lactation, drug level, reproductive risk, and pregnancy recommendations among the resources directing to refer to more than one resource for information about the safe and quality use of medications in this special population.The present study also emphasizes the need for development of comprehensive, evidence-based, and precise information guide that can promote safe and effective drug use in this special population.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Lactation / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Female / Humans / Pregnancy Language: English Journal: BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Journal subject: Obstetrics Year: 2023 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: S12884-023-05609-2

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Lactation / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Female / Humans / Pregnancy Language: English Journal: BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Journal subject: Obstetrics Year: 2023 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: S12884-023-05609-2