Evaluation of online drug references for identifying over-the-counter solid oral dosage forms
| Autor: | Paul L. Doering, Randy C. Hatton, S. Jay Weaver |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Databases Factual media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Alternative medicine Administration Oral Pharmacology (nursing) Nonprescription Drugs Pharmacy Dosage form law.invention Toxicology law Health care medicine media_common Retrospective Studies Pharmacology Dosage Forms Pharmacopoeias as Topic Internet Clinical pharmacology business.industry Confidence interval Family medicine Dietary Supplements Drug Information Services Over-the-counter business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA. 44(6) |
| ISSN: | 1544-3191 |
| Popis: | Objective To evaluate six drug references for their usefulness in identifying over-the-counter (OTC) solid oral dosage forms (SODFs). Design Retrospective evaluation of a convenience sample of requests for product identification. Setting Drug information center that accepts information requests from health care providers and law enforcement officials throughout the state in which it is located. Participants Researchers. Interventions Using a convenience sample of 68 nonprescription drugs and 41 dietary supplements obtained from the drug information center’s question and answer database, researchers sought to identify the SODFs using six drugidentification online databases. Main Outcome Measure Likelihood of identifying a SODF with a given reference, reported as the percentage identified and the corresponding 95% confidence interval. Results Overall, 88.2% of nonprescription drugs could be identified using all six references. The highest percentage of nonprescription drugs (77.9%) were identified using Identidex , followed by Ident-A-Drug (67.6%), Drug Identifier (45.6%), RxList (39.7%), Lexi-Drug ID (33.8%), and Clinical Pharmacology (17.6%). Using Ident-A-Drug and RxList together led to the identification of two fewer nonprescription drugs than did Identidex at approximately 5% of the cost. Only 15 (37.5%) of the dietary supplements had an identifying imprint on the dosage form, and 7 (46.6%) of the imprinted products were identified. But overall, only 17.1% (7 of 41) of dietary supplements could be identified, as none of the products without imprints could be positively identified. Conclusion Using these six online references, nonprescription drugs could be identified more frequently than could dietary supplements. The lack of imprints on many dietary supplements is an impediment to identification of these products. |
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