Pharmacy: Drug Info

What's new?

1. See the latest issue of Prescriber Update from Medsafe
2.  DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice have replaced our UpToDate subscription (from 1/10/2018).
3. The British Phamacopoeia now includes the latest five years of online access. (Click on Browse Publications to see the list.)

A range of databases to find quality drug information:

Toxicology/Poisons Information

• https://www.toxinz.com/

Drug Interactions

• Drug Interactions Flockhart Table (US)
• Stockley's Drug Interactions, 12e Health Sciences Library Books QV 38 S865 2019

Drug Supply Issues

• Medicine Notices, PHARMAC (NZ)
• Shortages, Therapeutic Goods Administration Australian Government
• Drug Shortages, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (US)

Pharmacology

• Interactive Clinical Pharmacology (NZ)

Drug Administration

- Oral

• Considered crushing for troublesome throats. MedSafe (NZ). Sept 2018
• Crushing guide for oral medication in Residential Aged Care. Waitemata DHB (NZ). Review date: April 2021
• Guide for crushing oral medication for residents with swallowing difficulties in residential aged care. Waitemata DHB (NZ). Updated: Feb 2021
• Don’t Rush to Crush (Australia)
• Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes, 3^rd ed 2015 (UK)
• Swallowing Difficulties, Pharmacist Specialist Services, NHS (UK)

- Injectable

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

Medicines information in the NZULM includes:

• whether a medicine is approved for use in New Zealand;
• what restrictions, if any, apply;
• whether it is subsidised and the level of subsidy; and
• any conditions that apply.

The New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule (the "Schedule") is a list of the approximately 2000 prescription medicines and therapeutic products subsidised by the Government. The Schedule is published three times a year and updated monthly.

• See the most current New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule
• See the archived New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule