Welcome | PIPA Recommended Resources for Medical Information & Pharmacovigilance Departments
This list is intended to provide guidance on the types of books and web-sources (plus some examples) that might be useful to any UK Medical Information or Pharmacovigilance department. It is not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive. It is recognised that the needs and resources of each company will depend on their product range, the experience of their staff and the financial resource available. Nevertheless it is hoped that this list will prove a useful guide for purchasing decisions. (Last reviewed December 2006).
For those departments who may require further resources a more comprehensive reference list is available on the UKMi website : http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/clinicalGovernance/default.asp?pageRef=4
Suggestions for additions / deletions are always welcome.
Internal Information
Current Summaries of Product Characteristics (SmPCs) for all company products.
Current Patient/Pack Information Leaflets (PILs) for all company products.
Current product price list.
Company product descriptions and ingredients.
Regulatory sources
MHRA Home Page:
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5
MHRA Blue Guide:
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=17736&noSaveAs=0&Rendition=WEB
EMEA Home Page:
http://www.emea.eu.int/
EMEA website page for EPARs:
http://www.emea.europa.eu/htms/human/epar/eparintro.htm
Compendia and reference websites etc
Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMs)
Electronic Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (emims)
http://www.emims.net
British National Formulary (BNF) (Latest edition) (ISBN: 0853694346) eBNF
http://www.bnf.org/bnf/
BNF for children (BNFC) (Latest edition) (ISBN: 0853696764)
http://bnfc.org/bnfc/
TIC TAC for Healthcare – CD-ROM obtainable through website
http://www.tictac.vhn.net
TIC TAC for Law and Order – CD-ROM obtainable through website
http://www.tictac.vhn.net
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (Book with CD-ROM), 35th Edition, Pharmaceutical Press, 2006, Ed Sweetman, S. ISBN: 0853697043 (Book + CD-ROM),085369687X (Book), 0853697035 (CD-ROM)
electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
http://www.medicines.org.uk/
Medicines Guides
http://www.medguides.medicines.org.uk/
Medicines Compendium- print version of selected SmPCs from eMC, Datapharm Communications Ltd
IPHA Irish SmPCs and PILs (if company's products are sold in Ireland)
http://www.ipha.ie/
IPHA Medicines Compendium - print version of selected SmPCs
Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) – USA prescribing information, through Thomson Micromedex:
http://www.pdr.net
Directories (with public access)
Hospital Information Pharmacists
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/
Doctors: The Medical Register
http://www.gmc-uk.org/
Pharmacists
http://www.rpsgborg.uk
Community / Retail Pharmacies
http://www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/uk/chemistsuk.html
GP Surgeries/ Hospital doctors/ NHS and Retail Pharmacist and other modules available by website subscription:
http://www.binleys.com
Medical dictionaries
(According to needs and budget)
Medical Dictionary, Stedman et al, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 28th edition ISBN: 0781733901
Stedman's Medical Dictionary (ISBN: 068396494) (comprehensive)
Stedman's Medical Dictionary online:
http://www.stedmans.com
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (30th edition), Saunders (ISBN: 0721602819). (Pocket version of Dorland's also available)
Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (ISBN: 0198607539), Oxford University Press.
[Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary (ISBN: 0198607539), Oxford University Press. 2007 edition will have ISBN: 0192806971]
Textbook of medicine
Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Eds David Warrell et al, Oxford University Press, (ISBN: 0198569785)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine Mini Edition, Oxford University Press, (ISBN 0198570716)
Pharmacokinetics
Basic Clinical Pharmacokinetics (4th Edition), Winter, ME, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, (ISBN: 096362198X)
Drug interactions
Drug Interactions (7th Edition), Ivan Stockley, Pharmaceutical Press (ISBN: 0853696241X)
Hansten and Horn's Managing Clinically Important Drug Interactions, Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (ISBN: 1574392220 )
Pharmacovigilance/ Drug Safety
Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs 15th Edition (ISBN: 0444509984)
Stephens' Detection of New Adverse Drug Reactions 5th Edition (ISBN: 047084552X)
Current Challenges in Pharmacovigilance: Pragmatic Approaches (Report of CIOMS Working Group V) 2001. (ISBN: 9290360747).
Benefit-Risk Balance for Marketed Drugs. Evaluating Safety Signals (Report of CIOMS Working Group IV) 1999. (ISBN: 9290360682).
Drug texts
Dollery - Therapeutic Drugs (2nd Edition, 1998) (ISBN: 044305892X)
AHFS Drug Information (2006). ISBN: 1575281425
The Merck Index (14th edition) ISBN: 091191000X
Goodman and Goodman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. (11th edition.) (ISBN: 0071422803)
Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients (ISBN: 1582120587)
Index Nominum (the International Drug Directory) (18th Edition 2004) (ISBN: 3887631013) (useful for identifying names/chemical formulas)
Organic Chemical Drugs and their synonyms. Negwer. (8th Edition 2001) (ISBN 3527302476)
Herbal Medicines. A guide for health-care professionals. Newall (Pharmaceutical Press. 1996). (ISBN: 0853692890)
Herbal Medicines. Barnes et al. Pharmaceutical Press.(2nd Ed) (ISBN: 0853694745)
Injectable drugs-compatibilities etc
Handbook of Injectable Drugs. Trissel. 2004. (ISBN: 1585281077)
Use of drugs in pregnancy, lactation & renal impairment
Drugs in pregnancy and lactation: a reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk. Briggs. (7th edition.) (ISBN: 0781756510)
Drugs & Human Lactation. Bennett. 2nd edition, (ISBN: 0444819819)
The Renal Drug Handbook. Bunn & Ashley. (2nd edition.) (ISBN: 1857751159)
Paediatrics
BNF for children (BNFC) (Latest edition) (ISBN: 0 853696764)
http://bnfc.org/bnfc
Evidence Based medicine
Sackett D et al Evidence based medicine. How to Practice & Teach EBM. (ISBN: 0727918214)
Greenhalgh T How to read a paper. The basics of evidence based medicine. (3rd edition.) (ISBN 1450139765)
Specialist medical or scientific information texts
Robson AS, Bawden D, Judd A (eds). Pharmaceutical and Medicines Information Management. Principles and Practice. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2001, 284 pages. (ISBN: 0443064016)
Code of Practice links
Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) website for the UK Code of Practice.
http://www.abpi.org.uk/links/assoc/pmcpa.asp
Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association
http://www.ipha.ie/
The Propriety Association of Great Britain
http://www.pagb.co.uk/
Barnard J., The Code in Practice, 3rd Edition, [How to follow the ABPI Code of Practice when producing and reviewing promotion], J Barnard Publishing, 5 Bramalea Close, London, N6 4QD.(ISBN: 0955209315)
Barnard J., The Code in the Field, 3rd edition. [A Practical Guide to the ABPI Code of Practice for Medical Representatives], J Barnard Publishing, 5 Bramalea Close, London, N6 4QD. (ISBN: 0955209307).
http://www.codeinpractice.co.uk/
Specialist texts
[Standard texts of key therapeutic areas of interest to the company.]
[Foreign language dictionaries appropriate to requirements.]
