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BC Children's Hosptal
Purpose: Online resource to determine appropriate dosing for neonatal and pediatric patients.
Type of Resource: Dosing resource
Included: Drug dosing for both pediatric and neonatal patient. Within each drug monograph, you will find the following information:
Dosing based on diseases or conditions
Drug dosing for both pediatric and neonatal patients
Dosage forms available
Tips for medication preparation (if applicable)
Student Bottom Line: If you have a neonatal or pediatric patient, we recommend using this resource to determine the most appropriate dosing for your patient as it is very simple to use and was created by Pharmacy staff at BC Children’s Hospital.
CPS
Purpose: Provides current, evidence-based therapeutic information for over 200 conditions and relevant drug monographs to guide treatment recommendations for your patient.
Type of Resource: Online database available to UBC students, staff, and faculty
Included:
Drug monographs
Therapeutic Choices
Algorithms
Goals of Therapy
Investigations
Summary of Conditions
Minor Ailments
Pill Identifier
Clinical tools
Renal function calculator
Body surface area
Body weight calculator
Drug administration and food
Drug administration and grapefruit
Student Bottom Line: As this is one of the most diverse resources available in pharmacy practice, we recommend this resource as a place to become familiar with conditions and drug therapies. It is best practice, however, to cross reference information and use condition specific resources when possible.
DynaMed
Purpose: A detailed resource for clinicians to become familiar with conditions and determine the best treatment, based on the best available evidence.
Type of Resource: Online database available to UBC students, staff, and faculty
Included:
Overview of conditions
Management of conditions
Drug monographs (dosing, mechanism of action, adverse drug reactions)
Various medical calculators
Summary of trials references in the monographs
Student Bottom Line: This database is organized by specialty and provides a very comprehensive overview of many different conditions. As this resource has an evidence based practice approach, we recommend this resource for many of your pharmacy inquiries.
Drug Bank
Purpose: Resource with detailed information on drugs.
Type of Resource: Online database
Included:
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
Adverse events
Drug targets
Student Bottom Line: For inquiries regarding drugs, this resource is a great reference to become familiar with details related to various drug therapies.
Drug Search
Purpose: Resource used to determine cost and coverage of medications in BC.
Type of Resource: Online database
Included:
Cost of medications
If the medication is covered in BC (and under what plans)
If the medication requires special authority, there is a direct link to the SA form
Student Bottom Line: This resource is a great quick guide to drug cost and coverage in BC.
LexiComp
Student Bottom Line: A detailed resource used by many clinicians to become familiar with commonly used drugs. This resource is used for dosing, determining safety in different patient populations, compatibility with other drugs, and general facts about the medication. Lexicomp is a very diverse resource with many different indexes and clinical tools available making it a student favourite. It is important to keep in mind this is an American resource so be sure to cross-reference dosing with a Canadian resource.
Briggs Pregnancy and Lactation
Lexi-Drugs
Martindale
Trissel's IV Drug Compatability
Natural Medicines
Purpose: Resource with evidence on efficacy and safety of different natural medicines.
Type of Resource: NHP Resource available to UBC students, staff, and faculty
Included:
Effectiveness/ Safety data
Interaction checker
Student Bottom Line: When patients ask questions about different NHP products, this is the recommended resource to determine efficacy and safety behind its use. We also would recommend using this resource to assess if interactions are present between your patient’s prescription and non-prescription drugs. This resource has a significant amount of information so CTRL-F will be your friend.
RxFiles
Purpose: Provides a summary of management of various conditions and evidence behind treatment options.
Type of Resource: General online resource available with subscription (hard copy can be purchased online)
Included: This resource is organized by body system and each conditions includes the following information:
Summary of conditions
Dosing
Summary of trials
Pricing of drugs
Student Bottom Line: RxFiles is one of the preferred resources at UBC as it summarizes conditions and treatments concisely.
UpToDate
Purpose: Guide treatment recommendations based on the most up to date evidence available.
Type of Resource: Online database available to UBC students
Included:
Overview of conditions (pathophysiology, diagnosis etc.)
Treatment recommendations
Drug monographs used from Lexicomp
Various scoring tools/calculators
Student Bottom Line: This is a great tool to become familiar with the most up to date evidence available to healthcare professionals. Additionally, this resource ensures you understand what the evidence behind the recommendations is (ex. is it coming from a meta-analysis, a randomized control trial, or is it expert opinion).
It is important to keep in mind this is an American resource so ensure to cross reference dosing with a Canadian resource.
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