An introduction to MedicinesComplete

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An introduction to MedicinesComplete
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What is MedicinesComplete?

• MedicinesComplete is an online subscription
  service
• Providing online access to world leading drug and
  healthcare resources
• Updated regularly by Pharmaceutical Press, the
  publishing division of the Royal Pharmaceutical
  Society
• Contains products from our publishing partners
• British Medical Association
• American Pharmacists Association
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• To visit our site, go to http//www.MedicinesCompl
  ete.com

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The new MedicinesComplete v3.0

• Improved navigation to preparations,
  interactions, drug monographs, adverse effects or
  treatment and so on
• Organisational branding
• Additional login mechanisms, including the
  ability to stay logged into your personal account
• Open URL enabled reference links
• New enhanced navigation within a document
• Improved global search
• Improved workflow integration
• Term recognition and weighting provides
  intelligent and relevant results
• Specialty limits applied to the global search
  provides focus across a broad set of resources
• Intelligent guidance for unrecognised search
  terms, ensuring zero results are reduced

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Subscriber welcome page
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Multi method login
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Global search result
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Result filter tabs
Selected resource search results
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Monograph
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In document navigation
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Open URL enabled
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The Facts

• More than 30,000 drug, poison, interaction and
  herbal monographs
• The latest advice on prescribing, dispensing and
  administering drugs and medicines
• The combined knowledge of hundreds of leading
  experts, scientists and researchers
• Over 100,000 references to original research,
  scientific papers, reports and cases studies
  PubMed links
• Up-to-date guidance on disease treatments,
  disease management and therapeutics
• Complete international coverage

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Features

• Quick easy-to-use global search across all
  resources
• Intuitive interface with a new clean look and
  layout
• Unique mix of world leading drug information
  resources
• New search filtering allows for quick access to
  key information
• Trusted, unbiased, global, clinically proven
  information
• Regular content updates
• Flexible access options such as IP address
  authentication, Athens and Shibboleth
• Open url reference linking

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Benefits

• Flexible choice of product tailored to your
  requirements
• Price structure to suit your budget
• Training can be provided by our sales team plus
  online PowerPoint and Flash demos
• Usage statistics can be provided including search
  trends
• Global company wide availability to comprehensive
  and reliable drug information

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The Resources

• AHFS Drug Information
• Published by the American Society of
  Health-System Pharmacists
• Covers drug interactions adverse reactions
  toxicity therapeutic perspective specific
  dosage and administration information
  preparations, chemistry, stability pharmacology
  and pharmacokinetics contraindications and
  more.
• Every year an average of over 60 of AHFS content
  is revised
• Contains over 1,200 monographs
• Over 40,000 represented medicines and over
  100,000 drug products
• Over 70,000 uniquely cited references
• Expert advice and peer reviewed
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/ahfs/current/

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The Resources

• British National Formulary
• Published jointly by the British Medical
  Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  of Great Britain,
• The BNF details medicines prescribed in the UK,
• Covers uses, cautions, contra-indications,
  side-effects, dosage and relative costs
• Best practice, legal and professional guidelines
  relating to the use of medicines
• Designed for rapid reference,
• Advice on prescribing, dispensing and
  administering medicines
• The BNF is used 600,000 a day, 3 million times
  per week
• The BNF 1 had 376 pages, the BNF 56 has 976 pages
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/bnf/current/

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The Resources

• BNF for Children
• Published jointly by the BMA, RPSGB, the Royal
  College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the
  Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group,
• Prescribing, dispensing, monitoring, and
  administration of medicines to children.
• Encourages the safe, effective, and appropriate
  use of medicines for the management of childhood
  conditions.
• Validated against emerging evidence, best
  practice guidelines, and advice from a network of
  clinical experts.
• The text is published under the authority of a
  Paediatric Formulary Committee.
• Includes authoritative advice on licensed as well
  as unlicensed and off-label use of medicines
  for children from birth up to the age of 18
  years.
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/bnfc/current/

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The Resources

• Clarkes Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
• For use primarily by scientists faced with
  identifying and quantifying drugs and poisons in
  body fluids, tissue samples and pharmaceutical
  and industrial products.
• Over 1700 drug and poison monographs
• Details physical properties, analytical methods,
  pharmacokinetic data, ultraviolet, infra-red and
  mass spectra, and therapeutic and toxicity data
  of drugs and poisons
• 31 sections cover all practice areas and
  analytical procedures
• International in scope and coverage
• Represents the combined knowledge of the
  analytical and forensic toxicology community no
  other drug analysis reference has the depth and
  breadth
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/clarke/current/

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The Resources

• Dietary Supplements
• Provides up-to-date information on safety and
  efficacy of dietary supplements.
• Includes the latest findings on the most commonly
  used dietary supplements
• Over 100 comprehensively referenced monographs
• Regulations relating to dietary supplements in
  UK, Europe and the USA
• Useful appendices including a summary of
  interactions with conventional medicines
• Recently added monographs include Collagen,
  Hyaluronic acid, Multivitamins Pumpkin seed
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/diet/current/

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The Resources

• Drug Administration by Enteral Feeding Tubes
• A practical guide to the safe administration of
  medicines via enteral feeding tubes
• Ten chapters provide the background knowledge to
  inform clinical decisions
• Accompanying 344 monographs
• Guidance on the safe administration of specific
  drugs and formulations
• Contents include types of enteral feeding tubes,
  tube flushing, restoring and maintaining patency,
  drug therapy review, medication formulation
  choice, unlicensed medication use, health and
  safety and interactions.
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit https//www.medicines
  complete.com/mc/tubes/current

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The Resources

• Handbook on Injectable Drugs
• The ultimate authority on compatibility and
  stability of injectable drugs.
• 372 drug monographs
• 2,623 references
• Make accurate assessments of the compatibility of
  various solutions and additives with a particular
  drug
• FAQs on preparation, storing and administration
  of injectable drugs
• Includes AHFS classification numbers
• Including common sizes, strengths, volumes,
  forms, pH, osmotic value, etc
• Storage requirements and general stability
  information,
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/hid/current/

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The Resources

• Herbal Medicines
• Invaluable online resource for evidence-based
  information on herbal medicines
• Addresses the issues of quality, safety and
  efficacy
• Scientifically rigorous, impartial, evidence
  based, information on medicinal herbs
• Over 150 monographs, comprehensively referenced
• Safety and interactions of a herbal medicine
• Clinical indication and dosage
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/herbals/current/

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The Resources

• Martindale The Complete Drug Reference
• Martindale The complete drug reference - trusted
  source for medicines information for over 120
  years.
• Worldwide coverage - unrivalled global focus
• Comprehensive, unbiased, reliable and evaluated
• Martindale forms the backbone of
  MedicinesComplete.
• Regularly updated
• Synopses of treatments for more than 660 diseases
  
• Over 6,300 Drug Monographs, 149,000
  Preparations, 40,700 References and 14,700
  Manufacturers Details
• Includes herbals, diagnostic agents,
  radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients,
  toxins, and poisons as well as drugs and
  medicines
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/martindale/current/

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The Resources

• Pharmaceutical Excipients
• Comprehensive guide to the uses, properties and
  safety of pharmaceutical excipients.
• Internationally acclaimed and one of the most
  authoritative
• Physical properties of individual excipients with
  comparative data on different grades from the
  same or different suppliers
• Over 300 fully referenced excipient monographs
• Ideal for those involved with the development,
  production, control and regulation of
  pharmaceutical preparations, or production of
  confectionery, cosmetics and food products
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/excipients/current/

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The Resources

• Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical
  Manufactures and Distributors
• Essential reference for all involved in the
  manufacture or distribution of medicines in
  Europe.
• Collates in one convenient and authoritative
  source European and UK guidance documents and
  information on legislation relating to the
  manufacture and distribution of medicines for
  human use.
• Bring together the main pharmaceutical
  regulations, directives and guidance for
  manufacturers and wholesalers
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/orange/current/

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The Resources

• Stability-Indicating HPLC Methods for Drug
  Analysis
• The only compilation of stability-indicating
  high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC)
  analytical methods
• Analysts can now avoid the tedium of lengthy
  literature searches
• A more in-depth, extensive description of the
  HPLC analysis presented in the literature
• Information on 572 different drug entities
  presented in structured monographs containing 30
  elements
• 1,028 stability-indicating HPLC analytical
  methods
• Unique in focusing on stability-indicating HPLC
  methods
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/hplc/current/

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The Resources

• Stockleys Drug Interactions
• The worlds most comprehensive and authoritative
  international reference source on drug
  interactions
• Quick and easy access to clinically relevant,
  evaluated, and evidence-based online information
  on interactions between therapeutic drugs,
  proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods,
  drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.
• Over 14,000 drug interactions in 2,800 Monographs
• Includes over 17,600 references
• International coverage
• Ability to enter up to 12 drugs at a time
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/stockley/current/

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The Resources

• Stockleys Interaction Alerts
• Stockley's Interaction Alerts is based on the
  full text of Stockley's Drug Interactions.
• The wealth of information has been reduced into
  succinct two-part messages to provide a brief
  overview of the evidence behind the interaction
• Allows instant review of possible drug
  interactions
• Covers over 40,000 drugdrug, drugalcohol or
  drugfood pairs
• Rating system easily identifies the depth of
  background information and gauges the potential
  severity of each interaction
• Links to full text of Stockley's Drug
  Interactions
• Invaluable and up-to-date, clinical decision
  making tool
• International coverage
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/alerts/current/

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The Resources

• The Merck Index
• World renowned reference source for chemical,
  pharmaceutical and biomedical information
• Over 10,000 monographs
• Critically evaluated, peer-reviewed, and
  authoritative information on compounds of
  significance in research, commerce, and
  environmental impact.
• Monographs provide descriptions of more than
  18,000 substances across multiple scientific
  disciplines including
• Drugs for humans and animals
• Organic chemicals used in research and
  manufacturing
• Plants and traditional medicines
• Natural products, toxins and biologicals
• Agricultural chemicals, pesticides, and
  herbicides
• Food additives and nutritional supplements
• Fragrances, fl avours, cosmetics, dyes, stains
  and colours
• For further information please refer to the
  resource fact sheet or visit http//www.medicinesc
  omplete.com/mc/merck/current

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Publishing Partners

• American Pharmacists Association (APA)
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
  (ASHP)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  (RPS)
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group