Prevalence, predictors, and clinical relevance of drug–drug interactions in outpatient prescribing: A national cross-sectional study

• Seyed Sahab Aarabi ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors.

  ¶‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

  Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1724-2818

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• Farbod Semnani ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors.

  ¶‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

  Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-419X

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• Zahra Aminzade,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran, Endometriosis Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2018-3436

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• Reza Mehrizi,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Gholamnezhad,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Clinical Research Development Unit, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran

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• Raham Armand,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran

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• Nezam Armand ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: lghamkhar@yahoo.com (LG); armandnezam@gmail.com (NA)

  ¶‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Health Management, Policy, and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Leila Ghamkhar

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lghamkhar@yahoo.com (LG); armandnezam@gmail.com (NA)

  ¶‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

  Affiliation National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4979-748X

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