1. Enquiry Specific Search strategies and the Medicines Learning Portal Tutorials NMSF – CPD Centre – Sudan Nov 2017
Ammar Abbas
Medicines Information / Medicines Management Pharmacist
Pharmacy Department
Countess of Chester Hospital (COCH) NHS Foundation Trust
November 2017
2017

2. Objectives To become familiar with:
Basic framework for handling Medicines Information (MI) enquiries
UKMi Free and purchasable resources lists
Enquiry specific reference sources
Enquiry Answering Tutorials using the Medicines Learning Portal

3. Medicines Learning Portal www.medicineslearningportal.org

4. Administration of medicines specific reference sources
Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes (via medicinescomplete)
Handbook on Injectable Drugs (via medicinescomplete)
IV Drugs guide (via medicinescomplete)

5. Adverse Drug Reactions specific reference sources
Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions
CHM—Commission on Human Medicines
CHM/MHRA
nonHumanMedicines/index.htm.
Drug Analysis Prints (DAPs) for Yellow Card data
MHRA
Interactive Drug Analysis Prints accessible via:
Note, old format still accessible from:
z/index.htm
INCHEM
International Programme on Chemical Safety
Toxicology information on chemicals and drugs.
TOXNET
US National Library Medicine
Toxicology information including pregnancy related toxicity information. Also links to LactMed (see below) for drugs in lactation information.

6. Drug Interactions additional references
Stockleys Drug Interactions PLUS
HIV Drug Interactions
The University of Liverpool
Hepatitis drug interactions
CredibleMeds
(QT prolongation)
US education organisation AZCERT
(renamed CredibleMeds in 2014)
List drugs that prolong the QT Interval and/or induce Torsades de Pointes by risk category. Registration required.
Medscape drug interaction checker
Medscape
Registration required.
Drugs.com interactions checker
Cerner Multum
To be used only after other approved sources have been used. Useful for information not readily available in UK sources.
Transformer website
(Cytochrome P450 database)
Institute for Physiology; Structural Bioinformatics Group, Berlin
Not to be used as a first-line resource.
Clinical significance of the interactions is not identified.

7. Injection Compatability specific references
Handbook of Injectable Drugs
IV Drugs Guide

8. Drugs in Pregnancy specific references
Briggs – Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation
TOXBASE
BUMPS:

9. Drugs in Lactation specific references
Briggs: Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation (available via medicinescomplete)
LactMed
US National Library of Medicine
UKMi Drugs in Lactation database
UKMi
Trent and West Midlands Regional Centres
Also check information held in Therapeutic Group Summary link.

10. Drugs in Renal Disease specific references
RENAL DRUG HANDBOOK / DATABASE

11. Any Questions