Adverse events targeted by drug-drug interaction alerts in hospitalized patients.

Objective: To identify the types of adverse drug events (ADEs) that drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts are trying to prevent in hospitalized patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted in a tertiary referral hospital in Australia. All DDI alerts encountered by prescribers during a 1-month period were evaluated for potential ADEs targeted for prevention.