Posted by 3 Beer Effect on May 12, 2002, at 0:10:36
Hello, I came across a great website for researching psychiatric drugs without the hassle/difficulty of looking things up on PUBMED.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/fr30.html
All you have to do is:
1. click on the drug you want to research
2. The (Canadian) monograph for the drug will pull up- go to the bottom & click on "research information"
3. On the left will pull up "(your drug) Research Topics"
4. Click on whatever topic you want & it will do a PUBMed Journal/Article/Reseach search automatically for you & pull up all the relevant articles.The BEST thing is that the website will automatically bring up all the relevant PUBmed articles for any of the following topics you choose on any psych drug listed on the website:
All topics
Administration & dosage
Adverse effects
Analogs & derivatives
Analysis
Blood
Chemistry
Comparative Study
Contraindications
Diagnostic Use
Economics
Fatal Outcome :(
Metabolism
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacology
Poisoning
Quality of Life
Review
Therapeutic use
Randomized controlled trial
Placebo RCT
Multicenter RCT
Toxicity
Urine[Select]
It is a Canadian website, so the monographs may differ from & if you are a U.S. Citizen are superceded by the Official U.S. Prescribing Information (but in many cases, especially inactive ingredients, the Canadian monographs are more detailed).
BUT the PUBmed/Medline research info it automatically looks up for you is from the United States, England & the rest of the civilized world,
so you get the same great PUBmed/Medline research info without the hassle & time required to do the searching yourself.
-There is an increasing danger with so many new psychiatric medications coming out & with so many people on multiple-drug regimens. Not every potentially hazardous drug combination(s) is in the PDR. Drug interactions & their effects on drug metabolism/liver enzyme systems are becoming extremely complex- I bet psychiatrists & even third-year psychiatry medical students have great difficulty with this particular subject.Personally, as a member of the 'laeity' with no medical education/background, I found PUBmed/Medline to be exceedingly frustrating & complicated to search through- Hopefully people will be able to use this easy-search resource to gain more knowledge about their medications/interactions & might just so happen to run across an article that may improve or even save their own (or someone else's) life one day.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/fr30.html
Cheers,
3 Beers
poster:3 Beer Effect
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