Primary Care Pharmacy November 1999 Vol 1 No 1 p31

News

Useful Websites

Many readers may already find "surfing" a useful method of finding clinical and drug information. It can provide a great deal of good up-to-date information but it can also provide biased information and waste time. Here are a few websites that may be useful. If readers have found any really useful ones please let us know.

Journals and Publications

Bandolier - www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/
The BMJ - www.bmj.com
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin - www.which.net/nonsub/pubs/dtb/content.html
The Lancet - www.thelancet.com
Evidence Based Medicine - www.acponline.org/journals/ebm/ebmmenu.htm
JAMA - www.jama.com
New England Journal of Medicine - www.nejm.org
Pharmaceutical Journal - www.pharmj.com
Pharmacy Journals - www.pharmacy.org/journals.html

Organisations

College of Pharmacy Practice - www.collpharm.org.uk
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/
Cochrane Collaboration - hiru.mcmaster.ca/cochrane/default.htm
Committee on Safety of Medicines - www.open.gov.uk/mca/csmhome.htm
National Prescribing Centre - www.npc.co.uk
National Pharmaceutical Association - www.npa.co.uk
Organisatonal academic - www.omni.ac.uk
Prescriptions Pricing Authority - www.ppa.org.uk
Surgical Materials Testing Lab - www.smtl.co.uk
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society - www.rpsgb.org.uk
World Health Organisation - www.who.int/

Drug Information

Drug InfoNet - www.druginfonet.com
Grateful Med - www.nlm.nih.gov/
Medscape - www.medscape.com/
Med line - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
PharmaInfonet - www.pharminfo.com
Pharmweb - www.pharmweb.net/
ScHARR Introduction to Evidence-Based - www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html

Practice on the internet

Update on medical literature - http://php2.silverplatter.com/physicians/digest.htm