Adverse Drug Reactions / Drug Interactions / Medication Safety
Databases
including adverse effect (AE) data
Web
sites focused on AEs
Restricted Access Databases and Monograph Collections
AHFS Drug Information via STAT!Ref, authorized users only
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, authorized users only
MICROMEDEX
® Databases, authorized users only
Freely Available Databases and Monograph Collections
Drugs.com
http://www.drugs.com
- heavily referenced, professional level monographs include information
information on side effects.
- Drug interactions checker.
- Access to professional level information requires free registration
DrugFacts
http://www.factsandcomparisons.com/
- "Interaction Alert" from Facts & Comparisons is made
available free of charge.
Herbmed.org
http://www.herbmed.org
- evidence-based, herbal medicine monographs that include safety warnings.
InteliHealth
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8124/8124.html
- The Index of Herbal Medicines and Supplements, a database of Herb
and supplement monographs, provides information on potential dangers
and interactions. References are provided.
Medscape DrugInfo
http://www.medscape.com/druginfo
- a drug monograph database that provides information about
adverse effects, precautions, drug interactions, overdose, and toxicity. Complete
citations for referenced works are provided in linked pop-up boxes.
- requires free registration.
MedlinePlus Drug Information - consumer level
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
- Consumer level, drug monographs from the USP
DI: Advice for the Patient and from MedMaster (ASHP) include
information on drug side effects.
RxList
http://www.rxlist.com
- Drug and alternative medicine monographs
cover side effects, interactions, warnings, precautions, overdosage,
and contraindications. (Click on "Alternatives" in the horizontal blue bar to reach the
alternative medicine monographs.)
Rxmed
http://www.rxmed.com
- Pharmaceutical monographs that include sections on warnings, precautions
& adverse reactions, and symptoms and treatment of overdose.
- Herbal medicine and dietary supplement monographs that include sections
on contraindications and precautions. References are included.
- Institute
for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
http://www.ismp.org/
- This non-profit organization "provides an independent review
of medication errors that have been voluntarily submitted by practitioners
to a national Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) operated by
the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USA." The ISMP web
site provides safety alerts, error reporting information, self-assessment
tools, consumer medication safety information, and a message board
for pharmacists with safety related concerns.
- QuackWatch
http://www.quackwatch.org/
- Stephen Barrett publishes this guide to "Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions." Dr. Barrett's
reviews of available evidence concerning health fads, dietary supplements,
herbal medications, health gurus, and recent medical trends are thought-provoking. Some
feel that Dr. Barrett's treatment of complementary and alternative
medicines is biased and overly negative.
- U.S. Food and Drug
Administration Product Alerts and Warnings
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html
- Enforcement reports, Adverse Drug Reaction reports, recalls, labeling
changes, medical device safety alerts, etc.
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