McGoogan Library of Medicine

Pharmacy Practice

Standards of Practice
Clinical Alerts
Boards of Pharmacy
Professional Associations
Pharmaceutical Care


Standards of Practice

ASHP Practice Standards
ACCP Position Papers
American College of Clinical Pharmacy commentaries, white papers, position statements, and guidelines. The website is supported by a grant from a pharmaceutical company.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
Provides links to primary care clinical practice guidelines on the World Wide Web arranged by topic (clinical content and diagnosis) and by site (organization website on which the guidelines are posted). Personal site of Peter Sam, MD; hosted by the University of California San Francisco.
National Guideline Clearinghouse(NGC)
A database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. Citations and structured abstracts are provided for all guidelines. Searchable and browsable by disease, intervention or issuing organization. Links to full-text of guidelines are provided when available. Produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP).

Clinical Alerts

NIH Clinical Alerts
Full-text of clinical alerts from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. "Clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality."

Boards of Pharmacy

(U.S.) National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Information on licensure of pharmacists. "Pharmacist and Pharmacy Achievement and Discipline (PPAD)" database. Contact information for Boards of Pharmacy in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, including links to websites of individual boards.

Professional Associations

Many professional organizations are developing World Wide Web sites. The sites typically provide information on membership benefits, upcoming meetings and conferences, and links to other Internet sites of interest to members. They often also provide position papers and news articles of interest to members.

American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists
American Pharmaceutical Association
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
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Pharmaceutical Care

Auburn University School of Pharmacy, Dept. Of Pharmacy Care Systems
This site includes pharmacy software reviews, information on pharmacists providing innovative pharmaceutical care services, and pharmaceutical care materials which can be downloaded.

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Last updated: January 12, 2006