Download UKMi Recommended Resources with Free Access

Resources with Free Access
For NHS Medicines Information Services
May 2015
This is a list of resources that are freely accessible and considered useful to NHS MI services. It includes free
paper resources (e.g. BNF, drug tariff) and freely accessible websites via the Internet or via National library
arrangements. This list is not intended to be exhaustive. It is organised under general subject headings and should
be used in conjunction with ‘Resources for Purchase by NHS Medicines Information Services’. Other UKMi
resources give guidance on what resources to use when, e.g. UKMi workbook, Enquiry Answering Guidelines.
There is also guidance on the risks associated with the use of various resources available in
Limitations of Common Information Sources used by UKMi at
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/filestore/ukmiacg/LimitationsofCommonInformationSourcesv6-June2014_3.doc.
Although UKMi cannot assure the quality of the listed resources, all those listed are produced by reputable/well
known organisations. URLs are available for download via the MiDatabank administrators and were correct at the
time of publication but are liable to change. Where registration is required this is indicated. This document may also
be used to store details of your departmental usernames and passwords if you haven’t entered them in
MiDatabank. This can then be kept in an accessible place for all staff working in MI.
See also Effective use of the Internet for Enquiry Answering for guidance on how to assess the quality of a website.
Updating the List
This list will be updated with new editions/ URLs etc. on an ongoing basis. MiDatabank will also be updated to
reflect these changes. The Clinical Governance Working Group reviews the content of the list periodically although
the content of the website or resource is not formally reviewed. Suggestions for additions or deletions can be
forwarded to [email protected].
Changes since February 2015
Title
CredibleMeds
(QT prolongation)
Medline
Date: May 2015
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
US education
organisation AZCERT
(renamed
CredibleMeds in 2014)
Change: Registration now required
Registration is now required to access the lists
Change: reduced search and limit fields
Whilst the transition to PROQUEST is being made, there will be
reduced fields and limits when searching Medline until 31st July
2015. After this time a new search and limit functionality will be
available.
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
General
British National
Formulary
BMA and RPS
(twice yearly)
One paper copy considered essential for each MI
centre (only the September edition is published for
free; March edition only available fro purchase).
Online access preferred as updated monthly
www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnf/current/
DoH—Department of
Health
DoH
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/depa
rtment-of-health
Drug Safety Update
MHRA
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update
Individual articles are searchable using the search
box. An archive of the monthly PDF versions are
also available.
Drug Tariff
The Stationery
Office (monthly)
Only available online
www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/edt_intro.htm
electronic Medicines
Compendium (eMC)
DataPharm
Communications
http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/
England:
www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidencecontent/journals-and-databases.
Athens password required.
Wales:
http://howis.wales.nhs.uk
Scotland: www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home.aspx
EMBASE
Google search engine
Google
www.google.co.uk for general seach engine but
also use Google scholar for more academic focus
http://scholar.google.co.uk/
Medicines Q & As
UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/medicinesQAs/def
ault.asp
An excel spreadsheet is available (with links) to all
current Q & As.
Q & As can also be accessed via the NICE
evidence search www.evidence.nhs.uk
(filter by Type of information ‘Evidence Summaries’
and Source ‘UKMi')
England:
www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidencecontent/journals-and-databases
Athens password required.
Wales:
http://howis.wales.nhs.uk
Scotland: www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home.aspx
Note: Medline is now provided by PROQUEST
(although still available via above links). As the
transfer occurs, there will be reduced fields and
limits when searching Medline until 31st July 2015.
Any previous saved searches will also be lost.
Medline
MHRA—Medicines &
Healthcare
Regulatory Agency
Date: May 2015
MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
General
MIMS
Monthly Index of
Medical Specialities
Haymarket Medical
Pubs.
http://www.mims.co.uk/.
Username and password required.
NB. Access free to MICs (contact Regional Centre
for details)
Netdoctor
Collaboration of UK
and European
healthcare
professionals
www.netdoctor.co.uk
www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/
For information about drugs, search the “Medicines”
section rather than the whole site.
PubMed
US National Library
of Medicine and
National Institutes
of Health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
OTC Directory
Proprietary
Association of
Great Britain
Available in searchable form at
www.medicinechestonline.co.uk. Use website drop
down and selection criteria to access.
UKMi
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk
Some areas are password protected (contact
Regional Centre for password)
UKMi Discussion
Group
Ecompass (host)
http://list.ecompass.nl/listserv/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MI-UK
Adverse effects
CHM—Commission
on Human Medicines
CHM/MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk/Committees/Medicinesadvisoryb
odies/CommissiononHumanMedicines/index.htm.
Drug Analysis Prints
(DAPs) for Yellow
Card data
MHRA
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/drug-analysis-prints/druganalysis-prints-a-z/index.htm
INCHEM
International
Programme on
Chemical Safety
www.inchem.org/.
Toxicology information on chemicals and drugs.
TOXNET
US National Library
Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/. Toxicology information
including pregnancy related toxicity information.
Also links to LactMed (see below) for drugs in
lactation information.
G6PD website
Associazione
Italiana Favismo
http://www.g6pd.org/.
Associazione Italiana Favismo is affiliated with
UNIAMO, Italian Federation for Rare Diseases,
which is member of EURORDIS, European
Organization for Rare Diseases.
This site should not be used in isolation for g6pd
queries; no single resource is comprehensive. This
site contains lists of safe and unsafe drugs and also
attempts to quantify risk (low vs. high).
Availability
IDIS World Medicines
IDIS World
Medicines
www.idispharma.com
Durbin PLC
Durbin PLC
www.durbin.co.uk
Pro-file Database
Guy’s and St
Thomas’ Hospital
NHS Trust
Sourcing unlicensed ‘special’ medicines. www.profile.nhs.uk. Registration required.
Date: May 2015
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
Complementary Medicine
Memorial SloanKettering Cancer
Centre
Integrative
Medicine Service
http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrativemedicine/about-herbs-botanicals-other-products
Information for patients is also available
Safety of Herbal
Medicines
MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/Safetywarning
salertsandrecalls/Safetywarningsandmessagesform
edicines/Safetywarningsandmessagesforherbalmed
icines/index.htm
Contraception and Hormone Replacement Therapy
IPPF Directory of
Hormonal
Contraceptives
International
Planned
Parenthood
Federation
http://contraceptive.ippf.org
Registration required. Can be used to identify
foreign contraceptive pills.
Family Planning
Association
Family Planning
Association
www.fpa.org.uk
Faculty of Family
Planning and
Reproductive
Healthcare
Royal College of
Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists
www.ffprhc.org.uk/.
Useful guidelines including choice of a
contraceptive agent at different ages, in breast
feeding, inflammatory bowel disease, interactions,
missed pills and using pills outside their product
licence, EHC and product reviews.
Diagnostic tests
Labtests online
Collaboration of
professional societies
and supported by the
Department of Health.
www.labtestsonline.org.uk/.
Patient orientated.
Drug abuse
Drug Misuse and
Dependence—
Guidelines on Clinical
Management (The
Orange Guide)
National Treatment
Agency
www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/clinical_guidelines_2007.p
df
DrugScope
DrugScope
www.drugscope.org.uk
National Institute on
Drug Abuse
The National
Institute on Drug
Abuse (US)
www.nida.nih.gov
Talk to Frank
DoH / Home Office
www.talktoFrank.com
Drug administration
Intravenous Drug
Administration Guides
UKMi recommends all centres have access to good quality IV administration guidance.
IMG—Injectable
Medicines Guide
(Medusa)
Health of Wales
Information Service
http://medusa.wales.nhs.uk or www.injguide.nhs.uk.
NB. Available free to contributing Trusts and all
Trusts in Wales & N Ireland.
Stabilis
Compiled by
hospital
pharmacists in
France
http://www.stabilis.org/
Compatibility and stability data to supplement other
resources.
Date: May 2015
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
Drug interactions
HIV Drug Interactions
The University of
Liverpool
www.hiv-druginteractions.org
Hepatitis drug
interactions
The University of
Liverpool
www.hep-druginteractions.org
Cytochrome P450
website
Indiana University
http://medicine.iupui.edu/flockhart/
CredibelMeds
(QT prolongation)
US education
organisation
AZCERT
(renamed
CredibleMeds in
2014)
https://www.crediblemeds.org/
List drugs that prolong the QT Interval and/or
induce Torsades de Pointes by risk category.
Registration required.
Medscape drug
interaction checker
Medscape
www.medscape.com/druginfo/druginterchecker
Registration required.
Drugs.com
interactions checker
Cerner Multum
http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html
To be used only after other approved sources have
been used. Useful for information not readily
available in UK sources.
Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Search—
Health and Social
care
NICE
www.evidence.nhs.uk.
General search engine for evidence based reviews
relevant to the NHS.
Bandolier
Pain Research
Group
Oxford
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane
Foundation
John Wiley & Sons
www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier
N.B. It doesn’t look as if this site has been updated
for some time. Still useful for explanations of terms
e.g. NNT etc but do not use for evidence.
http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
Medicines and
Prescribing Centre
NICE
http://www.nice.org.uk/mpc/index.jsp
New site following integration of the former National
Prescribing Centre into NICE.
NICE -National
Institute for Health
and Care Excellence
NICE
www.nice.org.uk
CKS
Clinical Knowledge
Summaries
NICE
http://cks.nice.org.uk/
SIGN—Scottish
Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network
SIGN
www.sign.ac.uk
WeMeRec Bulletins
Welsh Medicines
Resource Centre
www.wemerec.org
HTA assessments
National
Coordinating
Centre for HTA
www.hta.ac.uk/ Many of these evaluations inform
NICE guidance.
Centre for Reviews
and Dissemination
University of York
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
Date: May 2015
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
Infections
The Green Book
Immunisation Against
Infectious Disease
DoH
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/publi
c-health-england/series/immunisation-againstinfectious-disease-the-green-book
Immunisation
Information
Public Health
England
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/publi
c-health-england/series/immunisation
Public Health England
Gov.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/publi
c-health-england
Replaces the Health Protection Agency site
Lactation
At least two resources should be used for all lactation enquiries.
See also Resources for purchase list.
LactMed
US National Library
of Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT.
UK Drugs in Lactation
Advisory Service
database
Trent and West
Midlands MIC
UKMi
http://www.midlandsmedicines.nhs.uk/content.asp?
section=6&subsection=17&pageIdx=1
Legal and ethical
Medicines, Ethics and
Practice: A guide for
pharmacists and
pharmacy technicians
RPS
www.rpharms.com/law-and-ethics/medicinesethics-and-practice-guide.asp
Only free to RPS members.
New products
NDO
New Drugs Online
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/NDO/
Registration required (free). Also contains links to
independent new medicines reviews.
New medicines
reviews
UKMi/L(C)NDG
UKMi/ L(C)NDG/ RDTC new medicines evaluations
listed at
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/newProducts/defa
ult.asp?pageRef=3
but available via www.evidence.nhs.uk
NIHR Horizon
Scanning Centre
http://www.hsc.nihr.ac.uk/
Midlands
Therapeutics and
Review Advisory
Committee
(MTRAC)
http://centreformedicinesoptimisation.co.uk/mtrac/c
ommittee-recommendations
Click on relevant alphabetical files to access
‘Commissioning support sheets’ for listed products.
Tick box and download to access pdf document.
Patents Database
UKMi
http://www.midlandsmedicines.nhs.uk/content.asp?
section=5&subsection=9&pageIdx=1
UKMi username and password required
Prescribing Outlook
UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/newProducts/defa
ult.asp?pageRef=12
Scottish medicines
Consortium (SMC)
reviews
SMC
www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/
Date: May 2015
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
New products
All Wales Medicines
Strategy Group
(AWMSG) reviews
AWMSG
www.awmsg.org
European Medicines
Agency
EMA
www.ema.europa.eu
Paediatrics
BNF for Children
2014-2015
BMA, RPSGB,
RCPCH & NPPG
(annual)
One paper copy considered essential for each MI
centre (published annually)online via. Online
access preferred since the content is updated
monthly.
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnfc/current
/
Paediatric Formulary
9th Edition, 2014
Guy’s, St Thomas’
and Lewisham
Hospitals
9th edition available as a PDF via:
http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/publ
ications/formulary/paediatric-formulary-9thedition.pdf.
An iApp is due to be released in March 2015 (small
charge will apply)
Medicines for
Children
Partnership
RCPCH, NPPG and
WellChild.
http://www.medicinesforchildren.org.uk/. Also
contains patient information leaflets.
Palliative care
Palliative Adult
Network Guidelines
(PANG)
Developed by a
collaboration of UK
Cancer networks
Freely available at http://book.pallcare.info/. This
should be used as a core resource in preference to
the print version, but not the electronic version, of
Palliative Care Formulary (see below).
Palliative Care
Matters
Network of
Palliative Care
healthcare
professionals.
www.pallcare.info/ Use in preference to PANG for
syringe driver compatibilities
www.pallcare.info/mod.php?mod=sdrivers&menu=1
4
Palliativedrugs.com
(Palliative Care
Formulary on-line)
Robert Twycross &
Andrew Wilcock
www.palliativedrugs.com
(Registration required), but the syringe driver
tables are freely available using login (click on
SDSD tab).
Patient Information
NHS Choices
Gov.uk
http://www.nhs.uk
Patient UK
Patient Information
Publications/ Egton
Medical Information
Systems
www.patient.co.uk.
This site has useful healthcare professional pages
(see Therapeutics section below).
Medicines Guides
Datapharm
Communications
www.medicines.org.uk/Guides
Pharmaceutical
The Fridge Database
Northwick Park MIC
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/Secure/Fridge/Index.asp UKMi
username and password required
Medicines
Compliance Aid
(MCA) database
Southwest
Medicines
Information UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/mca/
Date: May 2015
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
Pregnancy
At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy enquiries.
See also Resources for purchase list.
TOXBASE
UKTIS* UK
Teratology
Information Service
www.toxbase.org
Registration required.
Monographs not suitable as patient information
leaflets—see BUMPs.
Royal College of
Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
Royal College of
Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
https://www.rcog.org.uk
A range of guidelines on women’s health is
available.
BUMPS—Best use of
medicines in
pregnancy
UKTIS
www.medicinesinpregnancy.org.
Produced by UKTIS. Provides information
factsheets (containing essentially the same
information as Toxbase) suitable for members of
the public which can be used in discussion with a
health care provider. Inclusion on this list does not
endorse its use by patients without such support.
Psychiatry
www.switchwiki.eu
Psychiatrienet
http://wiki.psychiatrienet.nl/index.php/Main_Page
Contains tables for:
 Switching between antidepressants
 Switching between antipsychotics
 Benzodiazepine conversion calculator
NB. Inaccuracies in some tables have been
identified. The authors have subsequently corrected
these. This resource should only be used in
conjunction with other resources and, ideally, be
discussed with a mental health specialist
Liver impairment
LiverTox
See opposite for
details.
http://livertox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html
This resource is a joint venture between the Liver
Disease Research Branch of the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK) and the Division of Specialized Information
Services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM),
National Institutes of Health
Statistics
Statistics in Divided
Doses
North West MIC
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/Research/default.asp?p
ageRef=27
Therapeutics
Patient UK
Date: May 2015
Patient Information
Publications / Egton
Medical Information
Systems
www.patient.co.uk.
After putting a term in the search box you will
have a list of resources to choose from. Those
with an apple and a plus sign are written for
healthcare professionals and are an excellent
resource with the following general headings:
presentation, diagnosis, aetiology, epidemiology,
assessment, management etc.
Resources with Free Access For NHS MI Services
Title
Username/
password
URL and general notes
Authors/
Publisher
Therapeutics
The Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and
Treatment
Berkow, R et al
Merck and Co.
www.merckmanuals.com/professional/index.html.
The latest edition can also be purchased as a hard
copy.
Dermnet
New Zealand
Dermatological
Society
www.dermnetnz.org/
A useful starting point for background information
and advice for dermatological enquiries.
Travel
Malaria Reference
Laboratory
HPA (now part of
Public Health
England)
www.malaria-reference.co.uk
National Travel Health
Network and Centre
(NaTHNaC)
National Travel
Health Network and
Centre, DoH
www.nathnac.org.
This advice is based on that produced by the HPA
(now Public Health England) and may differ from
advice in other sources (i.e. Travax, Fit for Travel).
However, all advice is evidence based. It is advised
that one resource only is used in these
circumstances.
Health Advice for
Travellers
NHS England
http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/Healthcareabroad/pa
ges/Healthcareabroad.aspx
Fit for Travel
Provided by NHS
Scotland.
www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk.
Public access site for sister site Travax.
This advice is based on that produced by NHS
Scotland and may differ from advice in other
sources (i.e. NaTHNac). However, all advice is
evidence based. It is advised that one resource
only is used in these circumstances.
Wound management and dressings
Dressings.org
Date: May 2015
Surgical Materials
Testing Laboratory
www.dressings.org
NB website last modified Nov 2011