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Pharmacy

A guide to library resources for students, faculty & staff at the College of Pharmacy

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Micromedex clinical use not permitted	Lexicomp	CPS (formerly RxTx)
BMJ Best Practice	Dynamed	Minor Ailment and Self-Care Guidelines (MedSask) clinical use not permitted
Cochrane Library	Embase	Pubmed
Natural Medicines	VisualDx	ASHP Injectable Drug Information (Trissel's)

Current ACP Journal Club Issues, for older entries dating from 1991-2008 see The ACP Journal Archives

Helpful Resources by Topic

Related resources to this topic are:

IWK Formulas for Compounding
Compounding Recipes Index (The Hospital for Sick Children Compounding Service)
Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (available via Micromedex)
Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients
Handbook on Injectable Drugs
Compounding Sterile Preparations

Related resources to this topic are:

Related resources to this topic are:

CPS (formerly RxTx)
Lexicomp
Micromedex
DynaMed
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (available via Micromedex)
AHFS Drug Information is available via Lexicomp
Drugpoints System

Related resources to this topic are:

MedLine Plus (Consumer health and drug information)
Drugs and Supplements (Mayo Clinic)

Related resources to this topic are:

Pharmacotherapy and Pathophysiologic Approach (DiPiro. 8th ed. 2011)
CPS (formerly RxTx)
Best Practice
DynaMed
AccessMedicine
Harrison's Online

Recommended Texts:

Zeind CS, Carvalho MG. Applied therapeutics: the clinical use of drugs. 11^th ed. Wolters Kluwer. (2018)

Jones RM. Patient Assessment in Pharmacy Practice, 3^rd ed. Wolters Kluwer. (2016)

Related resources to this topic are:

Natural Medicines
The Cochrane Library
Licensed Natural Health Products Database (Health Canada)
Dietary Supplements (Mason, 4th ed. 2012)
Herbal Medicines (Barnes et al. 3rd ed. 2007)
Herbal Products: Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology (Tracy & Kingston, 2nd ed. 2007)
Review of Natural Products (Facts and Comparisons)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products

Related resources to this topic are:

Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk (Briggs et al. 12th ed. 2021)
Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment Options and Risk Assessment (Schaefer et al. 3rd ed. 2015)
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMED)
Medications and Mother's Milk (Hale, 20th ed. 2023)
Micromedex

Related resources to this topic are:

Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure (Aronoff et. al., 5th ed., 2007)
CPS (formerly RxTx)
Micromedex
Lexicomp
The Renal Drug Handbook (Ashley & Currie, 3rd ed. 2009)
Clinical Nephrotoxins: Renal Injury From Drugs and Chemicals (Broe & Porter, 3rd ed. 2008)

Further Drug and Health Information Sources

Laboratory Values Tables

Clinical Laboratory Tests - Adult Normal Values (Medical Council of Canada)
Tables of Normal Lab Values (as of January 2013)

Alerting Services

Tools for Practice (Alberta College of Family Physicians)
Newsletters and Alerts (NICE)
Evidence Alerts (BMJ & McMaster University)
Advisories, Warnings and Recalls (Health Canada)
Therapeutics Education Collaboration
Medsquares BETA
CADTH (Canada's Drug and Health Technology Agency, requires account creation for newsletter summaries)
Therapeutic Initiatives (UBC)

Risk Assessment/Calculators

Beers List (Drugs to avoid in geriatrics)
FRAX (Fracture Risk)
Reynolds Risk Score (Heart and Stroke Risk)
Framingham Risk Score PDF (Cardiovascular Risk)
CHADS2 (Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Risk)
CHA2DS2-VASc (Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Risk)
SPARC tool (Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation Risk)
HAS-BLED (Major Bleeding Risk)
HFMedChoice (Heart Failure Therapy)
PEER Diabetes (Diabetes Medication Decision Aid)
PEER Pain (Pain Calculator)

Clinical Practice Guidelines

*For clinical practice guidelines that relate to specific topics, please see Course Based Resources

Dalhousie Libraries Youtube Tutorials

Minor Ailment Prescribing

Minor Ailment and Self-Care Guidelines (MedSask, clinical use not permitted)
CPS

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