Patient Drug Facts 2003 (2003)

This annually updated bound edition of "Patient Drug Facts" is a comprehensive patient counselling tool, with over 500 monographs written to guide verbal patient counselling, hundreds of charts and tables and a colour pill locator.

Monographs include product tables for easy comparison, types of drug, how the drug works, indications, unlabelled uses, contraindications, precautions, interactions, side effects and guidelines for use.

Also included are lists of look-alike/sound-alike drugs and dosage forms that should not be crushed or chewed.

A CD-ROM titled "Med Facts" allows printing of patient handouts in English or Spanish.