E-drug: Patient education (cont'd)
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G'day all,
Further to my last posting on CMI I had quite a few enquires. I
have/will have e-mailed you all by the end of the weekend.
Here are a few links to CMIs put on the web by the drug companies
in Australia. The drugs are under Australian brand names, but
some of the drug sites have them in therapeutic groupings. I will
endeavour to see if there is a complete listing of CMIs on the web
by our health department or Therapeutic Goods Administration and
place a further post if there is.
Eli Lilly http://www.lilly.com.au/health/medicines.cfm
Merck Sharpe & Dohme
http://www.msd-australia.com.au/medicine_info.html
Alphapharm (generic manufacturer)
http://www.alphapharm.com.au/alphapharm/public/health/home.jsp
Novartis (includes a generic name search)
http://www.novartis.com.au/consumer.html
GlaxoSmithKline
http://www.glaxowellcome.com.au/gskinternet/publishing.nsf/Conte
nt/products
AstraZeneca
http://www.astrazeneca.com.au/patients/medicines.html
There are plenty more. Think of a drug company and add .com.au
after it.
I understand many of you may have poor access to the web,
especially for large size web pages. If that is the case please e-mail
and I will try to get the information direct to you.
Here are a couple of other sites that may help:
A Guide to using Australian CMI for consumers and healthcare
professionals
http://www.health.gov.au/haf/nmp/consumers/cmi.htm then follow
the link. This is an 80kb file and in PDF.
Manual of Indicators to measure the Quality Use of Medicines in
Australia. This is a large file 512kb 118 page PDF document.
Andrew
Andrew Roberts Bpharm MACPP
Pharmacist
Australia
Tel: +61 (0) 419 130060
http://www.bitethedust.com.au/
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