Resources to support answering medicines-related questions in primary care
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NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service has published a guide suggesting resources for use in primary care to answer questions about medicines.
The document includes the following sections and most of the resources are freely available online:
- General resources and guidelines
- Administration of medicines
- Adverse drug reactions
- Breast feeding
- Children
- Complementary medicines
- Contraception and family planning
- Diagnostic tests
- Drug interactions
- Drug misuse
- Drug stability / pharmaceutical issues
- Identification of medicines
- Immunisation and vaccines
- Mental health
- New medicines and horizon scanning
- Palliative care
- Patent expiry
- Poisoning and toxicity
- Pregnancy
- Travel medicine
Resources to support answering medicines related questions in primary care December 2016