Epocrates Essentials for Android

This all-in-one clinical reference suite is Epocrates’ most popular premium product. It provides you with searchable drug & disease monographs and diagnostic tools.

Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs:

• Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications.
• Black box warnings, adverse reactions, drug interactions, and more.
• National and regional healthcare insurance formularies.
• Direct access to many manufacturers by phone or email for answers to your critical prescribing questions.
• Approximate retail drug pricing for patients paying out-of-pocket.
• Pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels.
• DEA/FDA status
• Metabolism, excretion, drug class, and mechanism of action

Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions between up to 30 drugs at a time including brand, generic, alternative, and OTC drugs. Potential interactions are organized by category to help you determine the appropriate action.

Our interaction logic goes beyond prescribing information to incorporate research that factors attributes such as inhibition potency, substrate exclusivity, and therapeutic index to determine clinical significance.

Order free literature and drug samples in seconds, directly from your Epocrates app. Offers from participating pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare organizations are available to view anytime. Select only what you want, complete your request in minutes, and have your samples and literature shipped directly to you.

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Identify a pill based on physical characteristics (i.e., color, shape) and/or imprint code.

• Select characteristics to view drug names and images
• Tap on a drug image to enlarge the picture

Additional references and tools to help you every day.

• MedMath - dozens of useful medical calculators, including Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure
• Association guidelines and reference tables

Consult in-depth, peer-reviewed disease content developed in collaboration with the BMJ Group, publishers of the British Medical Journal:

• History and exam, including risk and diagnostic factors
• Test categorizes include Initial Tests, Tests to Consider, and Emerging Tests
• Differential diagnosis with links to respective disease and condition topics
• Evidence-based treatment options searchable by patient group and compiled from clinical references and disease state management guidelines
• Follow-up, including monitoring, patient instructions, and complications

Also includes an infectious disease treatment guide:

• Search by system, organism, or organism class
• Access empiric and specific treatment recommendations
• Tap on a drug name to view its complete monograph

Get help with hundreds of lab tests and panels:

• Interpretation, based on high/low abnormal value, which provides differential diagnosis of drug, disease, and spurious causes.
• Integrated drug and disease information and follow-up recommendations
• Reference ranges, preparation and collection guides
• Approximate test cost and commonly associated ICD-9s.

EssentialPoints activities are interactive product details, designed to keep you current on medical topics such as disease states, therapeutic areas, and treatment options.

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Contact Manufacturer connects you directly to the drug manufacturer for product-related questions, to report adverse events, or to learn about patient assistance programs.

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Formularies are designed to give you access to national and regional healthcare insurance formularies so you can save time, improve quality care, and reduce the administrative burden.

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Tables/Calculators features MedMath calculators, including Pregnancy Wheel and Basal Energy Expenditure, plus Association guidelines and reference tables.

ESSENTIALS Requirements:

• Android OS
• Android phone with a firmware version of 1.6 and higher (Note: Android OS 3 is not supported).
• Minimum available memory
• 2.1MB* of main memory + 138MB** on the memory card.
• *An additional 20-35 MB is required each time you update your clinical content.
• **An additional 20K will be needed for each health plan formulary.
• Important Notes
• Wireless connection to download, sync and update.
• To check your Android OS, click here