Usually a
pharmacist in practice needs some reliable informational references
to respond on patient's or other healthcare providers' queries
whenever the answers are not scope of his/her knowledge. Truth and
factual information should only be handed to someone who needs answer
about drugs. Therefore, a pharmacist must have sources that contain
genuine information and really helpful to find solution to the
questions raised by patient or colleagues. Because nowadays the
internet is the most convenient and fastest way in giving answer to
the researcher, a pharmacist must collect pharmacy websites and
internet references which are very reliable and supported by most of
his/her group or the author is known to be in this craft and has
great knowledge to discuss such information.
In here I
give some pharmacy internet-based resources matrix adopted from the
book. These references are mostly referred by pharmacists abroad and
the US. These may be helpful to us pharmacists here in the
Philippines and for students, too.
National
Organizations
Food and
Drug Administration – www.fda.gov
National
Library of Medicine – www.nlm.nih.gov
Centers for
Disease Control – www.cdc.gov
National
Institutes of Health – www.nih.gov
Philippine
Food and Drug Administration – www.fda.gov.ph
Department
of Health – www.doh.gov.ph
Professional
Organizations
American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists – www.ashp.org
American
Pharmaceutical Association – www.aphanet.org
American
College of Clinical Pharmacy – www.accp.com
American
Heart Association – www.amhrt.org
American
Diabetes Association – www.diabetes.org
American
Cancer Society – www.cancer.org
Philippine
Pharmacists Association – www.philpharmacists.org/
Philippine
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy – www.pacopphils.org/
Representative
Pharmaceutical Companies
Listing of
Companies – www.Pharmainfo.com/phrmlink.html#drugs_RandD
Abbott –
www.abbott.com
Bristol
Myers Squibb – www.bms.com
Eli Lilly –
www.lilly.com
GlaxoSmithKline
– www.gsk.com
Merck –
www.merck.com
Novartis –
www.novartis.com
Pfizer –
www.pfizer.com
UniLab –
www.unilab.com.ph
Professional
Practice Resources
1997 Survey
of Internet Clinical Medicine Applications –
http://www.medmatrix.org/Info/survey.html
Avicenna –
http://www.avicenna.com
BIDS Embase
– http://www.bids.ac.uk
Biosis –
http://www.biosis.org
Center Watch
– http://www.centerwatch.com
Clinical
Pharmacology on Line – http://cponline.gsm.com
CMA Infobase
– http://www.cma.ca/cpgs/
Current
Contents – http://www.isinet.com
Docnet
Journals – http://docnet.org.uk/medisn/jounals.html
DoseCalcOnLine
– http://www.meds.com/Dchome.html
Drug
Interaction Database –
http://csmctmto.interpoint.net/davidws/medical.html
Efacts –
www.drugfacts.com
Encyclopedia
of Human Nutrition – http://apress.gvpi.net
Encyclopedia
of Immunology – http://apress.gvpi.net
Frederick L.
Ehrman Medical Library –
http://library.med.nyu.edu/Library/ejournal_frames.html
Guidelines
and Guidelines Practice – http://www.eguidelines.co.uk
Hardin Meta
Directory – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine –
http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md-path.html
Harrison's
Online – http://harrisons.accessmedicine.com
Health Care
Information Resources – http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html
Health
services/technology assessment text (HSTAT) –
http://hstat.nlm.nih.gov/
HealthAtoZ –
http://HealthAtoZ.com
Helix –
http://www.helix.com
Lexi-Comp
On-Line – http://www.crlonline.com
MedHunt
Search Engine – http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/find?1
Medical
Matrix – http://medmatrix.org/index.asp
Medical
Matrix – Major Journals –
http://medmatrix.org/Spages/major_journals.htm
Medical
Matrix Directory “What's New” Search –
http://www.uoeh-u.ac.jp/MML/MMS-e.html
Medical Word
Search – http://mwsearch.poly.edu
MedicineNet
Medical Dictionary –
http://www.medicinenet.com/MAINMENU/GLOSSARY/Gloss_A.htm
Medi-Span
Patient Drug Education-PC Healthtouch –
http://healthtouch.com/level1/p_dri.htm
Medscape –
http://www.medscape.com
Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and Therapy – www.merck.com
Merck Manual of
Geriatrics – www.merck.com
Merck Manual of
Medical Information – Home Edition – www.merck.com
Multimedia
References Library – Jonathan Tward's –
http://www.docnet.org.uk/medisn/journals.html
National
Coordinating Center for Health Technology Assessment –
http://www.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk/
National
Electronic Library for Health – http://nelh.nhs.uk/
National
Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) – http://nice.org.uk/
Natural
Medicines On-Line – http://naturaldatabase.com
OMNI –
http://omni.ac.uk
Outlines in
Clinical Medicine – http://www.avicenna.com
Patient
Handouts – http://www.rxmed.com/handouts.html
PharmWeb –
http:pharmweb.net/
Physicians'
Online (POL) – http:www.po.com
RXList – The
Internet Drug Index – http://www.rxlist.com/
ScHARR-Lock's
Guide to the Evidence –
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/scebm.html
Scientific
Citation Index – http://www.isinet.com
Scientific
American Medicine – http://samed.com
SIGN Guidelines
– http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sign/home/htm
StatRef –
Note: a search engine applied to 18 textbooks: -
http://online.statref.com
- Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
- Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
- Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Orthopedics
- Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
- Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment
- Degowin's Diagnostic Examination
- DSM-IV-TR
- Griffith's 5-minute Clinical Consult
- Medical Immunology
- Mosby's Drug Consult
- Principles and Practice of Emergency Medicine
- Review of General Psychiatry
- Review of Medical Physiology
- Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
- Smith's General Urology
- The ICU Book
- USPDI Advice for the Patient
- USPDI Drug Info for the Health Professionally
Turning
Research Into Practice – http://www.tripdatabase.com
U.S.
Pharmacopeia's Education Leaflets Health Answers –
http://www.healthanswers.com/health_answers/usp_drug_Search/frames333.htm
Master Index of
Medical Specialities (MIMS) – www.mims.com
