QT-Prolonging Meds Commonly Doled Out to Dialysis Patients

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Non-nephrologists frequently prescribed QT-prolonging medications with known torsades de pointes (TdP) risk to older dialysis-dependent patients, and often these prescriptions came from nonacute settings, a cross-sectional study suggested. Among Medicare patients with kidney failure receiving in-center hemodialysis, 52.9% filled an outpatient prescription for one of the seven most frequently filled QT-prolonging medications with known TdP […]

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Publish date : 2024-04-30 21:10:42

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