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Medication Safety Network Interactive Infographic

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About This MicroSim

This network shows how a graph database surfaces medication safety issues by traversing the relationships among a patient's active medications, drug-drug interactions, allergies, and existing conditions. Red lines mark drug-drug interactions (here the Warfarin + Aspirin + Ibuprofen triple raises bleeding risk), blue dotted lines mark contraindications (NSAIDs and metformin against stage-3a kidney disease), and green lines mark appropriate indications (Warfarin for atrial fibrillation, Metformin for diabetes). The central safety indicator flags that a high-risk combination is present.

How to Use

Read the four groups around the patient — medications on the left, conditions on the right, and allergies along the bottom — and follow the colored lines to see which relationships are dangerous (red, blue) versus appropriate (green). Click a medication to highlight just its relationships and dim the rest, making it easy to isolate a single drug's interactions, contraindications, and indications; click the background to clear the selection.

Iframe Embed Code

You can add this MicroSim to any web page by adding this to your HTML:

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<iframe src="https://dmccreary.github.io/modeling-healthcare-data/sims/medication-safety-network-infographic/main.html"
        height="450px"
        width="100%"
        scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lesson Plan

Grade Level

9-12 (High School Geometry)

Duration

10-15 minutes

Prerequisites

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Activities

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  2. Guided Practice (5 min): TODO
  3. Assessment (5 min): TODO

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