Epocrates Online Premium: Product Features

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Inside Epocrates Online Premium

Epocrates Online provides continually updated drug and clinical information from any Internet-connected computer. 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. Epocrates products have been demonstrated to:

Improve patient care and safety
Save time
Reduce administrative burden
Enable confident clinical decisions

Drug Information

Instantly access drug prescribing and safety information for more than 3,500 brand and generic drugs.

Search for a drug by name, first letter, or class, and then review:

Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications
Black box warnings, contraindications, and cautions
Serious and common adverse reactions and drug interactions (organized by clinical category)

Drug Information (continued)

Safety and monitoring information, such as pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels
Manufacturer information, approximate retail pricing, and FDA/DEA status
Pharmacology information, including metabolism, excretion (i.e., half-life), drug class, and mechanism of action
Full-color pill pictures
Patient education handouts in English and Spanish

Patient Education

Your patients and caregivers will appreciate you printing these friendly medication handouts in English and Spanish. Each handout addresses common concerns such as:

How to take the medication
Possible side effects
What the medication looks like

Plus, confirm your patients are taking the right drug at the proper dosage, or show them what their prescription will look like, by reviewing full-color images of their medications.

MultiCheck

There are some things you just can’t do in your head!

The powerful MultiCheck feature enables you to check for interactions among as many
as 50 drugs and alternative medicines at a time.

Potential interactions are organized by clinical category to help you determine the appropriate action.

Formulary Information

Epocrates Online Premium contains up-to-date, detailed formulary information for national and regional healthcare insurance formularies, including all Medicare Part D plans, and provides easy access to therapeutic alternatives.

Select the insurance formularies you use most often.
Quickly check to see which drugs are covered.
Find plan-specific details on copay tiers, prior authorization requirements, quantity limits, and step-therapy guidelines
Search for preferred therapeutic alternatives.

Alternative Medicines

More and more patients are taking alternative (herbal) medicines and dietary supplements. Epocrates Online Premium includes thoroughly researched, scientifically based information on over 600 alternative medicines, including:

Reported Uses
Reported Doses
Drug Interactions
Cautions
Adverse Reactions
Synonyms

Pill Identifier

The next time you encounter a “brown bag” of unidentified prescriptions, or need to ID a drug in an emergency situation, be sure to turn to the pill identifier.

Simply enter a pill’s characteristics (color/shape/coating/clarity/score) or imprint code to instantly view images of any matching drugs.

Clinical Tables

The Tables tab provides a wealth of clinical tables and specialty guidelines for your quick reference, such as:

ACLS/PALS guidelines
Narcotic equivalents
Endocarditis prophylaxis
Hypertension guidelines
Statin comparisons
Vaccination schedules
Inhaler Colors
Normal lab values
And much, much more

MedCalc

Save time performing common calculations and make confident clinical decisions with the robust MedCalc feature.

Hundreds of calculators organized by specialty include:

Medical equations
Dose/unit converters
Decision tree analysis tools
Clinical criteria sets

Disease Information

Easily find clinical answers to your questions about hundreds of diagnoses, with evidence-based content from the BMJ Group.

Search by disease name/first letter, specific topic, or category.
Review key highlights or detailed diagnosis and treatment information, including:

Basics - Definition, Vignette, Epidemiology, Etiology

Diagnosis - Approach, Risk Factors, History & Exam, Tests, Differential (critical differential diagnoses highlighted), Criteria, Screening

Disease Information (continued)

Treatment - Approach, Tx Details, Emerging Tx, Prevention

Followup - Overview, Complications

References and evidence scores

Image Library

Specifically formatted to enable you to expand information from concise to comprehensive.

Review convenient summaries for key information.
Choose whether to see additional details, references, and images.

Print/Email

Share Epocrates drug information with your colleagues and patients. Now you can easily print Epocrates information, or email up to five people at once. For example, share: