Research Guides: Family Medicine: Drug Resources

Key Drug Resources

CPS (formerly known as RxTx)
CPS (formerly known as RxTx) provides access to evidence-based, reliable Canadian drug and therapeutic information. Included are: access to best practices on common medical conditions, e-CPS, CPhA's Therapeutic Choices, Lexi -Comp's Lexi-Interact, information for patients, Health Canada Advisories, and more.
Micromedex 2.0
The evidence-based resources of Micromedex® Solutions are used by clinicians to inform and educate care decisions with the goal to meaningfully improve patient outcomes. Micromedex Solutions provide hospitals and healthcare providers with a single source of clinical information — from need-to-know drug, pediatric, disease, lab, and toxicology information to comprehensive resources for patient and consumer education.
The evidence-based resources of Micromedex^® Solutions are used by clinicians to inform and educate care decisions with the goal to meaningfully improve patient outcomes. Micromedex Solutions provide hospitals and healthcare providers with a single source of clinical information — from need-to-know drug, pediatric, disease, lab, and toxicology information to comprehensive resources for patient and consumer education. Mobile access is available.

Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases in its newsletter, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. The Adapted for Canada version has a few differences: Canadian prices, Canadian drug names, metric doses, and they also offer The Medical Letter in French, which is simply an English/French translation of the Canadian ed.
The Canadian-English PDFs are available for download at the top of every issue/article.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Martindale content is available via Micromedex 2.0 (link provided above). Information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.

From Micromedex 2.0: Click on the "Tox and Drug Product Lookup" tab at the top of the page and then select the "Martindale Global Drug" tab above the search box. Search for a drug of interest.

AHFS Drug Information
American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS) Drug Information is a collection of drug monographs on virtually every single-drug entity available in the United States. AHFS Drug Information is a tested and proven source of comparative, unbiased, and evaluative drug information.
HANDI: The Handbook of Non-Drug interventions
Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary
Physicians' Desk Reference