LibGuides: Drugs at Point-of-Care: Recommended Resources

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

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		Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Pricing	Red Book (via Micromedex)
Stability & compatibility	Handbook on Injectable Drugs	Extended stability for parenteral drugs
Toxicology	Lexidrug

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	Lexi drug
Contraindications, dosing, pill ID	Micromedex

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