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• Drug information

  • a printed information in a particular reference or verbalized by an individual that pertains to medications.
• Who are considered as drug information providers?

  • pharmacist
  • doctors
  • nurses
  • medical researches
  • other health care professionals
• Examples that has misleading information

  • news media
  • biased information
  • incomplete research
  • internet
• What is the purpose of drug information?

  to improve the level of patient care by ensuring safe and effective use of medicines.
• Information

  • it is the knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction.
• Information

  • it is to describe it as one or more statements or facts that are received by a human and that have some form of worth to the recipient.
• Information

  • knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance.
• Medication information

  • used to convey the management and use of information on medication therapy and to signify the broader role that all pharmacists take in information provision.
• Drug informatics

  • it is used to describe the evolving roles of the medication information specialist.
• When was drug informatics developed (it was used in conjunction with the words "center" and "specialist)?

  1960
• When was the first drug information center established?

  1962
• Where was the first drug information center was opened?

  University of Kentucky Medical center
• Drug information center

  • to be "a source of selected, comprehensive drug information for staff physicians and dentists to evaluate and compare drugs" as well as to provide the drug information needs of nurses.
• Drug information center

  • to take an active role in the education of the health professional students including medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy.
• Drug information

  • it should be stored in the center and retrieved, selected, evaluated, and disseminated by the specialist.
• Drug information specialist

  • the individual responsible for operation of the center.
• Tertiary resources

  • consist of textbooks, compendia, review articles in journals, full-text computer databases and other general information such as those that maybe found in the internet.
• Examples of tertiary sources

  • textbooks
  • drug compendia
  • review articles in journals
  • full-text computer databases
  • internet
• Goodman and Gillman's pharmacological basis of therapeutics

  • contains general principles of action, absorption, distribution, and metabolism.
• Goodman and Gillman's pharmacological basis of therapeutics

  • it is a "gold standard" pharmacology text and is very well referenced.
• Basic and clinical pharmacology by Katzung

  • a complete and comprehensive general pharmacology text which is utilizes nationally as primary reference for many pharmacology courses.
• American Hospital Formulary service

  • FDA approved and non-labeled uses, extensive dosage and usage section.
• American Drug Index

  • listing of products available in US and cross-referenced by trade, generic, and chemical names, various pharmacy type information.
• Philippine National Drug Formulary

  • includes medicines that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population and are selected based on the evidence of their efficacy, safety and comparative cost-effectiveness.
• Secondary sources

  • refers to references that either index or abstract the primary literature with the goal of directing the user to primary literature.
• Indexing

  • consists of providing bibliographic citation information (title, author, citation of article).
• Abstracting

  • includes a brief description of the information provided by the article or reseource cited.
• Secondary sources

  • frequently used to access the primary literature and usually consist of bibliographic citations.
• Secondary sources

  • most sources identify citations through a computer or online searching process, some exist in print form.
• Secondary sources

  • can be used for multiple purposes, one can be to help keep a practitioner of recently published information.
• Examples of secondary sources

  • computerized indexing systems
  • abstracting publication
• Anti-infectives today

  • this monthly services indexes important new research, adverse reactions, and pharmacoeconomic data in the area of therapies for infectious disease.
• Biologic abstracting

  • this is a comprehensive database of biologic information, covering biologic and biomedical information.
• Biosis previews

  • covers abstracts from conferences relating to basic sciences.
• Biologic abstracting

  • the most helpful when seeking basic science information.
• cancer today

  • this is a monthly indexing and abstracting service summarizing current literature in the area of cancer management.
• cancer today

  • information from recent trials, case, reports and international meetings is provided.
• cancerlit

  • this database is maintained by the National Cancer Institute and indexes from a variety of sources specific to cancer literature.
• cancerlit

  • this resource is most useful when looking for information about oncology therapies or quality of life issues.
• primary sources

  • often provides the most recent and in-depth information about a topic, and allows the reader to analyze and critique the study methodology to determine if the conclusions are valid.