BCPS Drug Information QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(LATEST UPDATE 2024)
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What is primary literature - ANSWER reports of original research, theories, ideas and opinions
- most current info at time of publication
What is secondary literature - ANSWER indexing and abstracting databases used to organize primary and tertiary resources
-- search yield list of citatio...
BCPS Drug Information QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS(LATEST UPDATE 2024)
What is primary literature - ANSWER reports of original research, theories, ideas
and opinions
- most current info at time of publication
What is secondary literature - ANSWER indexing and abstracting databases used
to organize primary and tertiary resources
-- search yield list of citations or citations with abstracts
What is the most relevant 2nd resource for pharmacsit> - ANSWER Medical
Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) Online (MEDLINE)
What are the key secondary resources - ANSWER 1. Clinicaltrials.gov (NIH, trials)
2. Cochrane library (systematic reviews)
3. CINAHL (nursing)
4. ECRI (guidelines, snapshots)
5.. Embase (elsavier, Émeline +2000 additional, less lag, more international)
6. Google scholar
7. IPA (>800 journals)
, 8. LexisNexis (legal, news, public records)
9. MEDLINE (NLM, >5000 journals)
10. Trip database (more than midline)
What is tertiary literature - ANSWER compendia that provide convenient, easily
usable info that has been synthesized and summarized from primary literature
-- drug databases
-- textbooks,
-- clinical practice guidelines
-- review articles
-- sometimes meta-analysis
Which tertiary references don't coffer off-label uses - ANSWER DailyMed, FDA
website, Physicians Desk Reference
List of tertiary resources - ANSWER 1. American Hospital Formulary Service Drug
Information (AHFS, ASHP) - on lexicomp
, 5. Facts and Comparisons - community, comparison tables, e-access to review of
natural products
6. Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs (apha) - otc organized by body system
7. Index Nominum - chemical and nomenclature Information for other countries
(micromedex)
8. Lexicomp + drug info handbook - drug-lab interactions, guidelines address med,
etc
9. Martindale - international drugs (micromedex)
10. Micromedex - off-label uses/pk/pharmacology, includes access to RedBook
(pricing)
11. Physicians Desk Reference - FDA approved prescribing info with special
editions for herbal etc
12. Drugs@FDA - FDA approved meds
13. USP dictionary of USAN and international drug names - names + chemical info
What are good resources for adverse drug reactions` - ANSWER FDA Adverse
Event Reporting System, FDAble (searches adverse events reported to MedWatch
and other FDA reporting systems), Side Effects of Drugs Annual (provides an
annual update on new data regarding adverse drug reactions
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