Drug Information (DI)
Where was the first formal drug information center established?
What is the University of Kentucky?
What are the 4 actions related to drug information requests?
What is Receive, Research, Respond, Record?
Summarized or interpreted original works; Textbooks, reference books, databases, monographs and review articles
What is a tertiary source?
What is the main secondary reference used by healthcare providers?
What is PubMed?
Derived firsthand and in the form of a written work
What is the key requirement of primary literature
What is highly emphasized by the ACPE standards throughout the experimental component of pharmacy education?
What is drug information?
This kind of question may require additional background information.
What is ‘Patient-specific”?
Facts and Comparisons, Lext-interact and Clinical Pharmacology (type of source and best option for what?)
What is a tertiary, drug interaction tool?
What secondary search strategy would refine a search to only containing a specific MAJOR term?
What is Focus?
More detailed than tertiary literature, Methods of investigation are extensively discussed within each work, published before tertiary literature
What are advantages of primary literature?
Drug Information is usually limited to information within product labeling in what area?
What is industry
This group of people need a formal quality assessment process, typically reviewed by practicing pharmacist or preceptor prior to dissemination of the drug information response.
Who are pharmacy students/trainees?
intent to publish transparent quality health information
What is the HONcode for websites?
In MEDLINE, articles identified would have the MeSH term with what to signify a MAJOR focus term?
What is an asterisk?
A short overview or summary of article that is either structured or unstructured and may be misleading.
What is an abstract?
What is a fairly new area of practice for Drug Information specialists?
What is informatics?
Patient/Population/Problem, Intervention/Exposure, Comparison, Outcome
What is PICO, the acronym used to formulate a searchable question?
Accuracy, appropriateness, arrangement, authority, comparability, illustrations, index, level, completeness, content, distinction, documentation, durability, ease of use, reliability, revisions
What are reasons for evaluation of a tertiary source?
What secondary search strategy would capture results from a category/class (ex. Ampicillin plus everything from amoxicillin to talampicillin)?
What is exploding?
What are forms of primary literature?
ACCP DI PRN Recommendations for Drug Information Practice include what areas?
What is:
Journal impact factor and quality of publishing journal, Date of publication, Quality of study type, Size of the study, Duration of the study
What are some factors that help determine the importance of literature?
Source where you can find compilation of prescription product package inserts, manufacture contact information, list of poison control centers and very limited table identification
What is physicians’ Desk Reference?
What is the leading resource for systematic reviews and meta-analyses?
What is Cochrane Library?
What are the steps for peer review process?
What is Manuscript submission - Eligibility review - Peer review - Revision - Publication