Drug-Disease Contraindications Clinical Reviews

Drug/Disease Module

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The Drug-Disease Contraindications Module (DDCM) is intended for use as a screening mechanism to detect drug-to-disease contraindications. This module includes clinically relevant and well-documented drug-disease contraindications.  Pregnancy and lactation warning information is included in DDCM, with the goal of a greater degree of safety for pregnant and lactating patients.

For more information, see the First Databank website.

To Enable Drug-Disease Contraindications Checking, go to

Utilities / Options / Clinical Reviews

Check the box for Drug/Diagnosis Contraindication warnings:

Ascend IP will do Drug/Diagnosis Contraindication checking as part of the Clinical Reviews after each order is placed.  In addition, if a patient diagnosis is added or changed, the Clinical Review process is run for each active order.