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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 Patient Medication Information
Compounding Trissel's stability of compounded formulations  
Current research / Primary literature PubMed@PCOM
 
Drug-drug interaction Lexidrug

 
Drug-food interaction Lexidrug  
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
     
IV Compatibility ASHP Injectible Drug Information Clinical Pharmacology
Natural products Natural Medicines  
Off-label use AHFS Patient Medication Information Primary literature via PubMed@PCOM
Package inserts DailyMed  
Pediatric dosing Lexicomp  
Pharmaceutics / Pharmacokinetics Clinical Pharmacokinetics Winter's Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacology Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Physical / Chemical properties PubChem  
Policy Recommendations AHFS Patient Medication Information  
Pregnancy and Lactation Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Pricing Red Book (via Micromedex)  
Stability & compatibility Handbook on Injectable Drugs Extended stability for parenteral drugs
Toxicology Poisoning and toxicology handbook Lexidrug

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 Lexidrug
Contraindications, dosing, pill ID Micromedex

Guide Information

Last Updated: Aug 28, 2024 1:46 PM
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