If you take a prescription medication, you have no doubt heard of the dangers of over dosing, receiving the wrong pills with your prescriptions and many of the other things that can go wrong with any pharmacy and prescription drugs. I have found a website that can help you with that problem. Epocrates is enhancing its free web-based drug and formulary reference guide with patient education materials and additional clinical tools, to be able to look up drugs you may already take, like the drug Abilify.
The Doctors and clinicians always have immediate access to the information they need to make prescribing decisions – such as drug dosing, drug interactions and health plan coverage. With one-third of U.S. adults taking at least five medications or supplements every day , patients often struggle when asked to list their medications. With Epocrates Online, you can help your doctor work with you and be able to view pill pictures to help to correctly identify the prescribed medications your are taking which will help in reduciing the guesswork and reducing drug interaction and prescription errors.
You can also print pictures of your medications to take with you to your doctor or pharmacist if you need to verify the pills you received or are taking are the correct ones. Many times, patients will have questions about new prescriptions they received after leaving the doctor’s office and as an enhancement to the free version of Epocrates Online, clinicians can now provide their patients with answers to frequently asked questions for the prescribed medication.
You can sign up for a free account at the site. In addition to these features, Epocrates Online dot com application includes information on more than 3,300 drugs, MultiCheck - a drug interaction checker that can identify possible interactions, and formulary coverage information for more than 130 health plans and all Medicare Part D plans.
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