Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
2. Drugs.com
Easy-to-use imprint search
Available to patients and NO charge
Tertiary Resources
Incompatibility and Stability
1. Handbook on Injectable Drugs
Commonly called Trissels
Compatibility and stability of parenteral medications
In the form of charts and tables
Routes of administration and commercially available strengths
Pocket-sized handbook and online
Tertiary Resources
Incompatibility and Stability
2. King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures
IV drug monographs
Focuses on compatibility
Limited on stability
Loose-leaf, bound, online, mobile device formats
Tertiary Resources
Incompatibility and Stability
3. Trissels 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database
Compiles data from other Trissel publications
Parenteral admixtures, compounded formulations, physical compatibility,
chemotherapy formulations
Intranet, CD-ROM, internet
Tertiary Resources
International Drug Equivalency
1. Index Nominum: International Drug Directory
Drugs available in over 130 countries
Structure, therapeutic class, proprietary names
Contact information for pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide
CD-ROM
Tertiary Resources
International Drug Equivalency
2. Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Domestic and international drugs
Proprietary names and manufacturer contact information for a variety of
countries
Common herbal products, diagnostic agents, radioactive pharmaceuticals,
some veterinary products
Hardcopy, CD-ROM, online
Tertiary Resources
Pediatric Dosage Recommendations
1. The Harriet Lane Handbook
Assembled by medical residents
Common diseases and conditions of newborn to adolescent patients
Medication dosing
Common side effects and dosage forms available
Palliative care and toxicology
Antimicrobial therapy (separate publication)
Paper and mobile device
Tertiary Resources
Pediatric Dosage Recommendations
2. Pediatric Dosage Handbook
Dosage recommendations for pediatrics
Extemporaneous preparations
Online, CD-ROM, mobile devices
Tertiary Resources
Pharmacokinetics
1. Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Basic principles of pharmacokinetics
Interpretation and implications of plasma concentrations
Monographs and discussions on drugs assessed by blood concentration levels
B. Abstracting
Also includes brief description (abstract)
Secondary Literature
Search Strategies
A. Identify key terms
B. Use of Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT
Secondary Literature
Search Strategies
C. Use of limit fields
a. Language, year of publication, type of article or journals
D. Address all possible search phrases (spellings or disease states that changes over
time)
E. Use of filters
a. Content filters - specific to drug or disease state
b. Validity filters - a way to narrow the search to only the highest quality studies (RCT, double-blind)
Secondary Literature
1. BIOSIS PREVIEWS
Comprehensive database of biological information
Abstracts from conferences relating to basic science
Activity of compounds on a cellular level
2. CANCERLIT
Indexes literature from variety of sources specific to cancer literature
Oncology therapy and quality of life issues
Secondary Literature
3. CINAHL
Fields of nursing and allied health
Patient care from the perspective of allied health professionals
Updated monthly
4. COCHRANE LIBRARY
INDEXES about medical treatments, conditions, and alternative therapies
ABSTRACTS of international systematic reviews
BIBLIOGRAPHY of systematic reviews in worldwide literature
Secondary Literature
5. CURRENT CONTENTS CONNECT
Overview of recently published literature
Clinical medicine, life science
Recent drug research and developments
6. EMBASE
Covers biomedical literature worldwide
Less lag time
Dietary supplements or medications available in other countries
Secondary Literature
7. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Scholarly materials available online
May not be able to access full-text versions
12. MEDLINE
Basic and clinical sciences as well as nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and many other health
care disciplines
5000 journals in 40 languages
Secondary Literature
13. PHARMACOECONOMICS & OUTCOMES NEWS WEEKLY
Biweekly publication
Recent publications regarding economic use of health care resources
Prescribing trends, recent health care news, and regulatory updates
Economic impact of disease states and medical interventions