Volume I:
Drug Information for the Health Care Professional
The Indispensable Guide for Drug Dispensing
Each thoroughly researched drug monograph provides important details about indications, drug interactions and other precautions, side and adverse effects pharmacology/pharmacokinetics, patient consultation guidance, dosing information, and dosage forms. Both labeled and off-label uses are covered to facilitate third-party payer reimbursement.
Volume II:
Advice for the Patient Drug Information in Lay Language
An Invaluable Resource for Patient Education
Today's patients are informed patients. Now you can give them an educational resource to match their proactive role in their own care USP DI® Advice for the Patient®. Written in easy-to-understand terms, Advice for the Patient® is more in-depth than other resources available?so the patients who want more information than the typical pharmacy leaflet may have it. The 2003 print edition of USP DI Volume II has 19 new monographs and 80 revised monographs.
Volume III:
Approved Drug Products and Legal Requirements
A complete one-volume source of requirements affecting drug prescribing/dispensing a cost-effective, time-saving guide to speed your daily research for accepted substitutes and important drug data.
Quickly find information on which generic drugs can be safely substituted for brand name drugs, important compounding information, drugs that have been discontinued, orphan drugs, purity and storage standards, as well as a manufacturer listing with their approved drugs.
This valuable reference includes the complete contents of the FDA's Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. It also features excerpts from USP-NF regarding quality, packaging, storing and labeling requirements, and color pill charts can help you promptly identify pills and capsules.