The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL) is an initiative established by the Alberta Government. It was created as a legacy to the late, the Honourable Lois Hole to continue her vision of greater learning opportunities for all Albertans.
Includes CPS Drug Information, critical updates such as warnings, advisories, and drug shortages; and useful tools such as medical calculators, Clin-Info, Pill Identifier, and Lexi-Interact drug interaction checker.
Comprehensive drug information tool for use at the point of care. Contains drug monographs, modules for drug interactions, identification, calculations, toxicology, patient education, and natural products. A mobile app is available for download.
Detailed information is found in the Parenteral Manual Usage Guidelines document. Information sources for the parenteral monographs include (but are not limited to) the CPS, manufacturers' product monographs, Pediatric Dosage Handbook (Taketomo et al.), Neofax, and Trissel's Tables - exact references are noted in each monograph at the end of the document and a detailed comprehensive reference list is provided.
It contains approximately 20,000 marketed products. Information available in the database includes Brand Name, DIN, Company, Ingredient(s), Route of Administration, Pharmaceutical Form, Package Sizes, Therapeutic Classification, Pharmaceutical Standard and Veterinary Species. TPP recently completed an enhancement to the Drug Product Database which provides for the grouping of products based on active ingredients.
Coverage includes all currently marketed drugs, pharmacological tools, compounds in the later stages of clinical trials and pharmaceutical excipients. As part of the Chapman & Hall/CRC Chemical Dictionary series, its standard features include concise chemical data, accurately drawn structure diagrams and bibliographic information.
ClinicalKey can be accessed on Apple and Android mobile devices. To access the full content of ClinicalKey you will need to register for a free ClinicalKey account. Information on this can be found here.
In addition, a comprehensive type of compound classification scheme brings together compounds that are biogenetically related. All this information is searchable by text or by substructure.
For a fuller description of the content, structure and organisation of the Dictionary of Natural Products click HERE.