Monday 2 April 2012

Martindale complete drug reference available online

Martindale summarises clinically useful information on all drugs and medicines, gives accurate, unbiased and regularly re-evaluated information in a concise format and provides a lead-in to the published evidence base.
Coverage includes
· Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines
· Nearly 6,000 drug monographs
· Over 160,000 preparations
· Over 54,000 reference citations
· Over 15,000 manufacturers
· Proprietary preparations from 41 countries and regions
· Synopses of disease treatments
· Enables identification of medicines, the local equivalent and the manufacturer
· Includes herbals, diagnostic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients, toxins, and poisons as well as drugs and medicines
· Based on published information and extensively referenced

You can access directly at http://www.blogger.com/%20http:/ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/martindale/current/
If you’re off-campus you will be prompted to login to EZProxy with your Liverpool username/password.

Access is also available from the library catalogue (click on the ‘GO Search this database’ link to access) and the A-Z list of Databases