Free Subscription to Patient Education Monographs Consumers, patients, and the general public are invited to enjoy a FREE subscription to the most complete,
government-compliant Patient Education Monographs that may be printed directly from the website
in both English and Spanish, and is written at sixth grade level for easy comprehension.
Consumers can find patient education information on a prescription or an over-the-counter medicine, an herbal supplement, or a new investigational drug by searching using the item's name, the condition it is used to treat, or the manufacturer that produces it. Get answers to all your questions regarding what the medicine is used for, how it should be taken, how to store it, what to do if you miss a dose, what possible side effects may be expected, as well as any precautions you need to watch for. Basic Subscription for Clinicians / Healthcare Professionals Access of concise, clinically-relevant, daily-updated Online Drug Clinical Information on ethical pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter medicines, herbal supplements, or new investigational drugs. Patient education monographs can be viewed and/or printed directly from the site in both English and Spanish.
There are several flexible ways to find the desired information. You may search by name, therapeutic class, product manufacturer, or a given indication. You may even query the database and display all drugs with a specific contraindication or causing a particular adverse reaction. A Drug Identification Utility is included in the "Basic Subscription" at no additional charge. It provides for an easy way to help identify a tablet or a capsule by the color, shape or imprinted markings. It could come in very handy in identifying a controlled drug or helping a patient to avoid ingesting the wrong medication. Advanced Subscription for Clinicians / Healthcare Professionals Access all of the features of our "Basic Subscription" described above, PLUS the following powerful Clinical Decision-Support Tools:
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The Disease-Treatment Query enables you to choose, among various
treatment options, the appropriate drug for a particular patient that would not conflict with that patient's
co-morbid conditions or existing allergies. There is no better way to optimize drug therapy and avoid drug
related problems at the point of care
- The Drug Interaction Query provides an analysis of a drug
regimen as to any potential drug interaction conflicts between all the drug pairs in the regimen.
- The Adverse Reaction Query assists you in analyzing a drug
regimen in order to identify the most likely causes of one or more adverse reactions a patient is experiencing.
It can also provide suggested alternative therapy from a list of therapeutically equivalent drugs with less
or no likelihood of causing the adverse reactions in question.
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- Table Comparisons allow a clinician to compare drugs of equivalent therapeutic class for optimal product selection. Criteria that are taken into consideration are potential contraindications to a patient's existing conditions, comparative severity of a particular adverse reaction, and possible avoidance of a potential drug interaction.
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Drug-therapy Management
Utility provides the ability to avoid the potential for adverse reactions or drug interactions or mitigate the ones already occurring. By analyzing a drug regimen for an occurring or a suspected reaction, the offending drug can be easily identified. Moreover, the utility provides a display of a selection-list of therapeutically equivalent drugs for possible substitution or for further fine-tuning the drug regimen.
Drug Database Licensing for Developers - Several data licensing options are available for healthcare developers. Clinical information and/or
government-compliant patient education material are available for your healthcare application, website, managed care software, PDA or other medical system. You may license the entire database or pick and choose among the hundreds of data fields we maintain. Data may be distributed on a CD-ROM or via our FTP website and formatted as required with daily Internet updates.
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