Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website.
Latest additions
Strong Opioid Identification Booklet now available!
Palliativedrugs.com Ltd. has produced a Strong Opioid Identification Booklet. This new resource is designed to be used in two ways:
• as a quick reference guide for the range of strong opioids and their formulations and doses available in the UK. Palliative Care Formulary (PCF) encourages safe and rational prescribing which extends to considering size, shape and taste of tablets and solutions, and avoiding doses which force patients to take more tablets, and/or open more containers than necessary. We hope this resource helps health professionals to address these issues
• to aid the identification of strong opioid formulations available in the UK. Where available and appropriate, photographic images of branded products are included. These are not to scale but can be used by health professionals in consultations with patients to help establish or confirm which drug is being used, along with the dose or particular brand.
The booklet is only available to UK health institutions and is provided free of charge as a service to medicine by Qdem Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Booklets will be distributed free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to availability. Generally, they will be shipped within 7-10 days of an order being placed. Each order is limited to a maximum of 5 booklets. To order your free copy, login and click on the link on our home page. The booklet is being distributed by an external company. Please note, when given the choice please select the ‘order without registering’ option.
PCF updated monographs
The online Palliative Care Formulary (PCF) is being continually updated. The following monographs have been updated during November 2013 and supersede those in the publication of the 4th edition of the Palliative Care formulary (PCF4). They can be accessed from the formulary section of the website:
Chapter 2: Furosemide, Spironolactone, Clonidine
For a full list of all the monographs updated since the publication of PCF4, click here.
Website satisfaction survey winners and results
Results from this www.palliativedrugs.com website satisfaction survey (September–October 2013) can be downloaded from here. For details of the five winners to receive a free copy of the pdf version of PCF4+ 2013 click here. Congratulations and thank you for your support. Please continue to let us know of anything you think we could improve by sending an e-mail to hq@palliativedrugs.com.
Die September/Oktober Ausgabe des APM Newsletter ist fertig
The September/October issue of APM Newsletter for German-speaking users of www.palliativedrugs.com is available.Die September/Oktober Ausgabe des APM Newsletters ist fertig. Über die aktuelle Ausgaben des Newsletters wird Sie das Bulletin Board informieren.
Prepared by Sarah Charlesworth and Andrew Wilcock