Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Electronic vs Hard Copy drug info. resources
SE After speaking with a pharmacist that I work with I understand that PDA drug information resources are a highly underused commodity in the retail pharmacy setting. This pharmacist, let's call him Jack, went to school at the University of Iowa and graduated in 2001. He would prefer to use a PDA, not a Smart Phone, at work but finds them unaffordable and he has some experience with using them. If Jack were to own a PDA he would prefer to have Clinical Pharmacology Onhand software. A text copy of Drug Facts and Comparrisons is available at the work place but Jack finds this to be a difficult resource to use because it takes to long to find the information in print and it's usually incomplete. -End- SE
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PH: I wanted to leave a brief comment on this, I focused on drug information pharmacists when I interviewed people. From my experience I believe that they tend to have more experience with electronic drug information resources than retail pharmacists. Even in that setting it seems that the experience with PDAs is quite variable, some use them, others never have. I would be surprised if this doesn't change with younger pharmacists having more exposure to these resources in school than older pharmacists did
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