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Drugs at Point-of-Care - Recommended Resources

This guide will help you find resources related to pharmacotherapy at the point of care.

Drug Information

Type of Question: Preferred Source: Secondary Resource(s):
Adverse drug reactions Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs AHFS Drug Information
Compounding Trissel's stability of compounded formulations  
Current research / Primary literature PubMed@PCOM Embase
MEDLINE@OVID
Drug-drug interaction Stockley's drug interactions Lexicomp
Drug Interaction Facts
Drug-food interaction Food medication interactions  
Disease information DynaMed AccessMedicine 
Equivalent products The Orange Book: Approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence  
Geriatric dosing Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Lexicomp
Guidelines Dynamed  
Infectious Diseases Sanford Guide Pharmacist's guide to antimicrobial therapy and stewardship
Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases
International Drugs Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference  
IV Compatibility Handbook on Injectable Drugs Clinical Pharmacology
Natural products Natural Medicines  
Off-label use AHFS Drug Information Primary literature via PubMed@PCOM
Package inserts DailyMed Product or manufacturer website
Pediatric dosing Pediatric Dosage Handbook Lexicomp
Pharmaceutics / Pharmacokinetics Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy Winter's Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacology Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Physical / Chemical properties Merck Index PubChem
Policy Recommendations AHFS Drug Information  
Pregnancy and Lactation Preferred Source: Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation LactMed
Pricing Red Book (via Micromedex)  
Stability & compatibility Handbook on Injectable Drugs Extended stability for parenteral drugs
Toxicology Poisoning and toxicology handbook Lexicomp

Tertiary Drug Databases/Compendia

Information or Type of Use Database

Contraindications, dosing, dosage forms, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, pill ID

Clinical Pharmacology

Black Box warnings Black Box RX
Off-label uses, audio pronunciation, calculators, pharmacogenomics, international brand names, drug and herbal interaction analysis, patient education, pill identifier Lexicomp
Contraindications, dosing, pill ID Micromedex

Guide Information

Last Updated: Mar 1, 2024 4:12 PM
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