Epocrates Online

Provide the best possible patient care with Epocrates Online - a free, fast, and effective way to find clinical information at the point of care.

Unlike other online medical references, Epocrates Online organizes practical, peer-reviewed content with a unique patient-centered approach, providing you with answers, not more questions.

• Continually updated, integrated drug and disease information
• The most relevant information, by clinicians, for clinicians
• Easy-to-use expandable menus that let you go from concise to comprehensive
• Look up a monograph directly, or find specific information through an open-text search

Instant access to thousands of prescription generic and brand drugs.  Search by name or browse by class.

• Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved indications and off-label uses, dose adjustments for renal and hepatic impairment
• Black box warnings, contraindications, cautions
• Adverse reactions organized as serious and common
• Drug Interactions categorized by action required to prevent or minimize adverse outcomes
• Safety and monitoring information, including pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters, therapeutic drug level testing and Look-Alike/Sound-Alike drug names
• Manufacturer information, approximate retail pricing, and FDA/DEA status
• Pharmacology information, including metabolism, excretion (half-life), drug class, and mechanism of action
• Full-color pill images

The Epocrates OTC drug module provides the latest information on hundreds of brand name over-the-counter drugs.  Each product-specific monograph addresses key issues to support clinical decisions.

• Active ingredients and their uses
• Dosing appropriate to patient age
• Available flavors
• Alcohol, sugar, dyes ingredients
• Interactions with prescription and herbal medications
• Alternatives, a unique feature to identify available products with the same active ingredients but in different forms 
• Quick browse function to identify multi-component products
• Health plan formulary coverage for selected OTC products

Rapidly identify evidence-based tests and treatment options for hundreds of conditions in our richly illustrated disease reference content sourced from the BMJ Group, publishers of the British Medical Journal. Unlike other online references, Epocrates Online organizes practical, peer-reviewed content with a unique patient-centered approach to support clinical decision-making at the point-of-care. Search by disease name or browse by specialty.

• Key highlights page provides a snapshot summary
• Diagnosis section offers a quick list of 1st tests to order and others to consider,  history and exam checklist, narrative approach, differential checklist, and more
• Treatment section thoughtfully organizes evidence-based recommendations by patient type; 1^st line, 2^nd line, and other approaches are integrated for each type of patient; narrative approach offers additional detail
• Follow-up includes prognosis, monitoring, patient instructions, complications
• Richly referenced, evidence scores highlight quality of available evidence
• Image Library

Epocrates Online Requirements:

Compatible Web Browsers

Mozilla Firefox 2 and later

Safari 2 and later (for Mac)

Safari 3 and later (for Windows)

Internet Explorer 6 and later