List of References

Pulled From Drug Literature Evaluation Lectures
Dr. Shelley Schliesser, PharmD [Fall 2009]

(4/5)

Cross referenced

Drug Interactions
Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care (American Pharmacists Association)
Red Book: Pharmacy’s Fundamental Reference (Thomson PDR)
Evaluations of Drug Interactions (First DataBank )
Drug-Reax

Pregnancy
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Medications and Mothers’ Milk
Red Book: Pharmacy’s Fundamental Reference (Thomson PDR)
Clinical Pharmacokinetics (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)

Compounding/Injectables
Remington: the Science and Practice of Pharmacy (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
Handbook of Injectable Drugs (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
International Pharmaceutial Abstracts (IPA)
Thomson


Method of Actions
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Evaluations of Drug Interactions (First DataBank )


Quick Reference
Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy
Medications and Mothers Milk

Pharmacokinetics
Drug-Induced Diseases: Prevention, Detection and Management (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
Clinical Pharmacokinetics (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
Thomson

Identification
Red Book: Pharmacy’s Fundamental Reference (Thomson PDR)
Ident-a-drug
MicroMedex - identidex
Clinical Pharmacology


Pharmacists Letter
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Pharmacists Letter
Ident-a-drug


Critical Care
Consider what you would need to do if your patient could not even maintain the most basic of body activities
ICU Book
Management of intensive care patients
Breathing, hemodynamic stability, circulation, oral intake, movement , etc
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Pregnancy & Lactation
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Considered a “gold standard” of pregnancy and lactation related information
Alphabetical listing of drug monographs (>1000)
Notes the level of severity in pregnancy

Medications and Mothers’ Milk
Quick look monograph
Many drugs addressed
Also, shows pregnancy listing
Focus on lactation including the pharmacokinetics related to breast milk
Addresses recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Alternative Medicine
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Comprehensive monographs
MOA, ADRs, interactions, therapeutic indications and rankings on use, safety rating
Links for brand and generic names
Extensively referenced
In Pharmacist’s Letter – from Wal-Mart
Review of Natural Products
300 monographs
Scientific names, source, chemistry, toxicology, MOA
Herbal, mineral and hormonal therapies
Extensive referencing
Therapeutic and alphabetic listing

Infectious disease
Usually complex questions of what can I do with what I’ve got
Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy
Quick listing
Pocket version (also available in other versions)
Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases
Extensive discussion of specific infectious diseases
Treatments discusses

Laboratory evaluation
Lab values can help in continued patient care. But, just exactly what lab is applicable to what you are monitoring?
Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data
Focus specifically for pharmacists Gold standard for pharmacists
Tumor markers noted
Laboratory Test Handbook
Written to physicians

Red Book: Pharmacy’s Fundamental Reference (Thomson PDR)
Clinical information (sugar free, alcohol free products, pregnancy rating, common lab tests)
Strengths, sizes, formulations
FedWatch, Vaccine forms, drug information centers
State boards of pharmacy
Manufacturer directory
Full color pictures of product
Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care (American Pharmacists Association)
Focus is on self-care
Address multitudes of diseases and issues not necessarily discussed elsewhere
Pain, fever, reproductive, genital, cold and allergy, gastrointestinal, nutritional agents, ophthalmic and otic, dermatological, miscellaneous, medical equipment, alternative medicine
Drug Interactions
Evaluations of Drug Interactions (First DataBank )
Generic names of drugs interacting
Summary
Similar drugs
MOA of the interaction
Clinical recommendation
References
Tables
Code 1 (highly clinically significant) – Code 4 (not clinically significant)
Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs (Elsevier)
Chapters discuss major drug classes and side effects seen
Search by two means
Drug
Side effect
Drug-Induced Diseases: Prevention, Detection and Management (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
Drug-induced diseases on healthcare Allergic/ immunologic diseases
Neurological/ psychiatric diseases
Respiratory/ cardiovascular diseases
Endocrine diseases
Gastrointestinal diseases
Pharmacokinetics
Clinical Pharmacokinetics (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
Calculating creatinine clearance
Specific agents reviewed
Aminoglycosides, Antiepileptics, Immunosuppressants, Antidepressants, Digoxin, Heparin and LMWH, Antiarrhythmics, Lithium, Theophylline, Vancomycin, Warfarin
Use of agents in multitude of patients
Neoatal, pediatric, geriatric, renal dosing
Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure: Dosing Guidelines for Adults (American College of Physicians)
Tables identify dose based on CrCl
>50, 50-10, <10
Dialysis elimination also identified (Hemo, CAPD, CAVH)

Compounding and Preparing
Remington: the Science and Practice of Pharmacy (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
Multiple issues discussed
Calculations, manufacturing, pharmacokinetics and dynamics, pharmaceutical and medicinal agents

Handbook of Injectable Drugs (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists)
Focus on injectable drugs
Stability
Administration
Compatibility
Stability sterility administration and compatibility
Specific to environment
IV compatibility

International Pharmaceutial Abstracts (IPA) (http://proxy.ucwv.edu:2197/gw1/ovidweb.cgi?New+Database=Single|0&S=IDNJHKELLBJOFO00)
Abstracts drug specific information
More than just articles sited
Pharmacy information
Administration
Clinical
Specific to pharmacists – COMPOUNDING TIPS
Also lectures, symposiums, poster presentation as well as articles
Pubmed/ Medline (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed, http://proxy.ucwv.edu:2197/gw1/ovidweb.cgi?New+Database=Single|2&S=IDNJHKELLBJOFO00)
Abstracting medical information
Not all necessarily in english or drug related
Free online


Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
http://proxy.ucwv.edu:2189/ehost/search?hid=5&sid=e3c4e89c-cd53-4e7e-b0f8-2a6cd4a1c68d%40sessionmgr2)
Indexing in nursing and allied health
Book good for psychology of the patient
Dealing with human nature
Personal level of information – not as source based
Iowa Drug Information System (IDIS) (http://proxy.ucwv.edu:2202/)
Indexing of drug information
Retrieval of full text articles
Full, drug-related articles

Government agencies
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (www.fda.gov)
New Drugs and Biologics updated constantly (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/, http://www.fda.gov/cber/products.htm)
Orange Book (AB equivalence, patent expiration) (http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm)
Medwatch forms and reports (http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html)
Alert sections

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (www.cdc.gov)
Vaccine information and guidelines
MMWR
Growth charts
Issues
Infectious disease, chronic diseases, workplace hazards, environmental threats
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (www.nih.gov)
Medical research (27 separate institutes and centers)
Sites of interest
ClinicalTrials.gov (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct;jsessionid=3AF38B6D4CA5DA90562C27CDCB35FCCB)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines (NCCAM) (http://nccam.nih.gov/)
MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov/)
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) (www.ismp.org)
Nonprofit group
Nongovernmental but work collaboratively
Focus is on medication errors and how to reduce or eliminate
Ismp recent addition – goal is to reduce med errors – non-profit org
Even report all near misses so as to proactively fix issues

West Virginia Board of Pharmacy (www.wvbop.com)
Search for who is a pharmacist and intern
State newsletter
Local requirements and licensure information

Complaint form
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) (www.nabp.net)
50 states represented and then some
NAPLEX/ MPJE
State newsletters
Foreign Pharmacy and Reciprocation
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (www.ashp.org)
Drug shortages page VERY helpful!!!
References to purchase
Guidelines
Drug shortages CE
Residency accreditation
News headlines
Meeting information
AJHP journal
The ashp bookstore is very helpful
West Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists (www.wvshp.org)
Local activities (meetings)
Legislation
Membership information
American Pharmacists Association (www.aphanet.org)
Publications
Pharmacy Today, JAPhA, Pharmacy Student
Meetings
Reference to purchase
Latest information
American College of Clinical Pharmacy (www.accp.com)
Board Certification
Clinically focused
References to purchase
Meetings
Clinical and academia
Board study info

Pharmacists Letter (www.pharmacistsletter.com)
Available online, newsletter and PDA
Rumors vs. Truth Monthly updates, CE
Searching capabilities Charts (example: diabetes treatment)
Patient handouts
Natural Medicines Database (www.pharmacistsletter.com)
Ident-a-drug (www.pharmacistsletter.com)
ID (imprint code) NDC code
Merck Medicus www.merckmedicus.com
Cochrane Collaboration(www.cochrane.org)
International, nonprofit
Reviews of practice
Access requirements
Martindale
Information on a multitude of products
International drugs
Investigational
Herbal
Diagnostic
Pesticides
Coloring agents and preservatives
Martindale updated several times a year
Drug-Reax
Drug Interactions
Drug
Food
Disease
Alcohol
Laboratory
In micromedex system also
Will run ultimate drug interaction reaction as far as kinetics not additive drug effects
Thomson
IV Index – IV compatibility (Trissel)
Kinetidex – kinetic parameters
Pharmaceutical MSDS – Material Safety Data Sheets
P&T Quik – Reviewing drugs under consideration
PDR – PDR books
Red Book – AWP
USPDI - I & III
Clinical Pharmacology
Gold Standard Product
Greater than 10 years old
US products (prescription, OTC, herbal, investigational)
PDA version
Monthly updates (Intranet)
CD-ROM updates (Quarterly)
Drug information – prescription, OTC, herbal, nutritional
Find by condition, ADR, classification, specific clinical criteria
Multiple agents for interactions and ADRs
Therapeutic equivalents
Tablet identification
Patient Education