Product Description

"The Drug Information Handbook" continues to set the industry standard with hundreds of thousands of copies sold! This easy-to-use reference is a must-have for all clinicians and healthcare professionals seeking quick access to concise, comprehensive drug information. Endorsed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), "Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook" is trusted by practitioners everywhere to help improve patient outcomes and prevent medication errors. Covering over 5500 medications, the "Drug Information Handbook" contains 1,453 drug monographs, including 43 new monographs and hundreds of updates. Monographs encompass up to 34 fields of information, including detailed content on dosage, drug interactions, and adverse reactions. Supplementing the drug information is an extensive Appendix, with hundreds of charts and reviews of special topics such as treatment guidelines and therapy recommendations, and a Pharmacologic Category Index listing all drugs under their unique pharmacologic class. Updates to this edition include 43 new drug monographs, appendix updates, diabetes mellitus management, adults antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection, adults and adolescents, status epilepticus, immunization recommendations, top 200 prescribed drugs, and expanded FDA tall man lettering guidelines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17877 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1873 pages

From the Publisher
The Drug Information Handbook, now in its 8th Edition, has proven to be a valuable resource for all pharmacists, students, physicians, residents and other clincal practitioners requiring comprehensive yet concise drug information.

Customer Reviews

My peripheral brain of drug knowledge
Pharmacists and physicians field dozens of drug information questions daily that can have life and death ramifications. Lacy's "Drug Information Handbook" is a concise, organized, reference book that will quickly become your first line source for up-to-date information on drug dosing, toxicities, pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) indications, drug interactions, and more. In addition, there are voluminous tables with comparison data. I highly recommend this book to healthcare professionals.

Single best reference I have
Being a hospital pharmacist and former pharmacy resident at a very well-known tertiary care center, I have found the DI Handbook to be the single best resource I have. There are other reference books that provide more complete information or are tailored to a specific topic, but I don't think there is a better general drug reference book that is as easy to carry as the DI Handbook. I use it daily in my practice.

The Essential Portable Drug Reference
I am a clinical pharmacy specialist on an internal medicine teaching service. I have found that Lexi-Comp Drug Information is by far the most user-friendly, yet comprehensive of the portable drug references. Drugs are listed alphabetically by generic name, so there is no fumbling through indexes and listings by class when information is needed quickly, e.g., on rounds with the medical team. The topic headings under each monograph are extensive and thorough, and there are a number of useful appendices in the back of the book. There is a joke in our facility that this book is surgically attached to one hand of all the clinical pharmacists. This is the book I keep by the phone at home when I am on call, and the reference I recommend to my students to bring on teaching rounds.

While initially a "pocket" reference, the DI Handbook has quite outgrown the labcoat pocket, though it is still very portable. Though there are some monographs for combination products, there are no side-by-side comparisons of combination drugs such as found in Facts and Comparisons, et al. Adverse effects sections consist of lists of reactions ranked by frequnecy and categorized by organ system. Detailed information about any specific reaction is generally lacking, but it does provide a starting point for further investigation.

Overall, this is the best combination of ease-of-use and thoroughness of information in a drug reference that I have found.