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Websites for MI NMITC July 2008 UKMI www.ukmi.nhs.uk Supports the UKMi network MI News Highlights new resources Fridge Database Latex database Other specialist MI resources Medicines Q and A UKMi Enquiry Answering Page Is under the Clinical Governance heading www.ukmi.nhs.uk Standard search Websites/Web-based Resource Links. A word document to use / adapt. Will help you create your own ‘favourites folders Effective Use of the Internet for Enquiry Answering. A PDF document that provides guidance on safe and efficient use of the Internet eBNF & eCBNF www.bnf.org.uk Search or browse – sometimes browsing is easier Navigate using tree structure BNF extra – advanced information on what will be new in next edition Calculations/conversions eMC www.medicines.org.uk SPCs searchable by text and by section PILs X-PIL service Medicine Guides dm+d Medicines Complete Stockley, Martindales, AHFS, Herbal Medicines & Handbook of Injectable Drugs www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/ Trial subscriptions available Special price for UKMI – contact regional centre for details Easy to search Access out of hours on-call NELM www.nelm.nhs.uk News headlines What’s new Register and “log in” to see full content Easy to search the many products individually or separately National Library for Health http://www.library.nhs.uk Quick links to many resources “log in” using your Athens UN/password Easy to search the many products individually or separately Evidence Based Reviews Guidance Specialist Libraries , Books and Journals Training available from your library service Cochrane Can be accessed via NHS Wales e-library for health / NHS Scotland e-Library & National Library for Health www.library.nhs.uk Contains a number of different databases including: The Cochrane Databases of Systematic Reviews and Methodology Reviews (Recognised as gold standard) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations). Health Technology Assessment Database Department of Health www.dh.gov.uk Difficult to navigate Lots of archived documents – your 1st ‘hits may not be the most up to date Put in the year – sometimes helps Use Google add “www.dh.gov.uk” to your search Google & Google Scholar www.google.co.uk Powerful search engine Thousands of hits Many ways of limiting searches Scholar - limits to academic sites BUT use it wisely MHRA – Drug Analysis Prints Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency www.mhra.gov.uk Another website that isn’t easy to navigate Save the URL into MiDatabank or favourites folder DAPs http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Onlineservices/Medicines/Druganalysisprints/index.htm NHS Choices www.nhs.uk General resource Portal for NHS Services Patient information Map of Medicine eMIMMs www.healthcarerepublic.com/login/ Username and log in from your regional centre Useful for prices Some good tables comparing drugs in the same therapeutic class (eg Insulins, HRT) Summaries of guidelines Self-help directory Clinical Knowledge Summaries (Previously Prodigy) Clinical Knowledge Summaries www.cks.library.nhs.uk/ Guidelines for GPs Useful for enquiries relating to conditions mainly managed in primary care Regularly updated Lexi-comp www.lexi.com/ Is not a cheaper substitute for Micromedex – there is less detail and not as well referenced but some easy to access information Drug monographs with subsets Poisoning/toxicology Alternative medicines Clinical / diagnostics Natural Medicines Database www.naturaldatabase.com Comprehensive database Good for checking interactions Searchable under product name, drug name or disease/condition Efficacy Referenced Toxbase http://toxbase.u5e.com/ Free registration for NHS users Poisons, antidotes etc Good for pregnancy enquiries (though check date of monograph) Website Address Username Password Micromedex www.thomsonhc.com MDE3 MDE4 Tour97 Pharm-Line www.pharm-line.nhs.uk pl-train-08 trent NMCD www.naturaldatabase.com To be notified Lexi-comp http://www.lexi.com MIDatabank Enq. Manager To be notified Sam Smith MIDatabank Administrator Administrator Equinox TIME Database 16.45pm TicTac 17.05pm MIDatabank 16.25pm Micromedex 17.45pm NMCD 18.05pm Pharmline Lexi-Comp? Tutor Cochrane ?