Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of drug interactions

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:08, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of drug interactions

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Delete. Extremely limited list. For it to be of any use, it would have to be unmanageably long. If someone is looking for drug interactions, they can look up a specific drug. It duplicates information from each articles' page and not in a format that would ever be useful. Natureium (talk) 14:55, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The only possible use I can think of is if the article was scrapped and List of drug interactions instead gave a list of different types of drug interactions. Natureium (talk) 14:58, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as duplication of the drug articles' interactions sections. For types of interactions, we have Drug interaction. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 15:46, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:16, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:16, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete At best incubate. The list/bracket format isn't suited for detailing drug interactions. As is stands it's almost meaningless to anybody who hasn't read more about the specific drug to find out how exactly the interaction works. And the article hasn't seen much improvement over the years. Mr. Magoo (talk) 19:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Theoretically, there are nearly infinite drug-interactions (for example, every sedative interacts pharmacodynamically with every other medication that causes sedation, all serotonergics interact with each other, etc--and that's not even accounting for all intra-class interactions, let alone drug-disease state interactions (contraindications), all pharmacokinetic interactions--you get the point). Attempting to list them all is like counting sand. There's a reason that massive databases like Lexicomp exist, and WP is not Lexicomp. Furthermore, information like "potentiates" isn't even useful; drug-interactions exist on a spectrum of clinical significance, ranging from theoretical and clinically irrelevant to potentially lethal combinations.―Biochemistry🙴❤ 02:51, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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