Pharmacy
This page provides a filtered list of library databases for pharmacy professionals.
Scroll down for drug information, pharmacological databases, guidelines and more.
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- Information tool on common illnesses and drug Treatents for the eldery.
AMH: Australian Medicines Handbook
- Advice about medicines and interactions. Search by drug name or therapeutic topic.
- AMH user guide
AMH: Children’s Dosing Companion
- Information about prescribing and medication dosing for paediatric patients.
Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH)
- Information on injectable medicines including antineoplastic and paediatric medicines.
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- An electronic bookshelf you can use to access the Monash Health Library’s journal collection.
- BrowZine user guide
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- Medication fact sheets to help consumers, carers and family members understand their medicines better and to make more informed decisions.
- Elsevier platform of eBooks, journals and clinical support tools such as guidelines and calculators
- ClinicalKey user guide
Clinicians Health Channel (CHC)
- Victorian Health Department resources for public hospitals.
- Register for an account with your Monash Health email address.
- Collection of Cochrane databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence including reviews and RCTs.
- Cochrane Library user guide
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- A comprehensive biomedical and pharmacological database of peer reviewed literature on the Ovid platform
- Embase user guide
- Premium nursing and allied health database and search tool, ideal for practice, research, or education.
- Emcare user guide
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IBM Micromedex (Micromedex Solutions, Micromedex)
- Evidence based drug information including the RUGDEX, POISINDEX and TRISSELs databases. The platform also provide dosage calculators.
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- Medication database providing drug information, monographs, adverse reactions and warnings / precautions.
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Martidale’s Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Checker
- Provides information on adverse drug reactions and clinical management. Search by drug, group, ADR or body system.
Martindale: The complete drug reference
- Includes additional drug monographs and preparations records for older drugs not included in the printed version.
- An extensive database of peer reviewed literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- Medline user guide
MIMS Online (Medical Information Management System)
- Medicine information including product information (PI), pill ID, consumer medicines information (CMI) and drug interactions.
- MIMS user guide
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- Dietary supplements, natural medicines and complementary, alternative and integrative therapies.
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Paediatric Injectable Guidelines On-line
- Information about safe administration of injectable medicines in children from the RCH.
- Specialist drugs references, clinical guides, compatibility charts and therapies for adult palliative and hospice care.
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- A medication guide for renal practitioners – prescription information, drug interactions and administration.
Royal Women’s Hospital Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide
- Evidence-based individual medicine monographs which support prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
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Stockley’s Interactions Checker
- Information about therapeutic medicines, herbal medicines, foodstuffs, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.
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- Online access to the Therapeutic Guidelines and drug index. Access by computer or set up the mobile app.
- Therapeutic Guidelines user guide
- A database focusing on pharmacology and toxicology including interventions, signs and symptoms.
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- Evidence-based point of care tool for decision support with continuously updated expert opinion.
- UpToDate user guide
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