FLITE Course Guides
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Course GuidesComparative charts and drug information for on-label and off-label use, affect on pregnancy and lactation, and risk mitigation. Also includes herbal information, boxed warnings, manufacturer index, medication guides, and immunization schedules. Drug reports searchable by adverse reaction, indication, and contraindication.
Drug and disease information including drug identification, drug dosing calculation, AHFS content, and patient education materials. Also includes Trissel’s IV compatibility, drug reports searchable by adverse reaction, indication, and contraindication, as well as MSDS and toxicology information.
Comprehensive evidence-based resources on drugs, medication management, toxicology, diseases, acute care, alternative medicine, and condition management.
Now that you've located your drug product's prescribing information, do several things:
1) Go to Drug Facts and Comparisons and click on the Product List tab. Look at the Routes and Dosage Form and see what makes your assigned drug product unique from the other ones on the list.
2) Look at your drug's Prescribing Information again, and notice how the drug is described, particularly as it relates to the dosage form. Pick up key description terms, like proprietary technology, spray, sublingual, tablet, capsule, dispersible, extended release, disintegrating, film..........
3) Write down the key things that distinguish your Drug Product from other ones (if there are others) that have the same active ingredient!
To determine when your drug product was approved, go to the FDA's Orange Book and search on the proprietary (brand) name:
Drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and related patent and exclusivity information. Searchable by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant, application number, dosage form, route of administration or patent number.