Prescribing apps tied to online pharmaceutical databases can help physicians quickly select the best medications for their patients based on efficacy, side effects, interactions, and other factors.
Family physician David Rebedew, MD, reviewed six commonly used pharmaceutical apps to identify which ones offered the most critical features, including interaction checking, drug monitoring information, dosing information, and pill identification. (Apps reviewed November 2018.)
| Med scape |
UpTo Date |
Drugs. com |
Epocra tes |
Clinical Pharma cology |
Tarascon Pharma copoeia |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antibiotic resources |
X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Calculators | X | X | X | X | ||
| Dialyzability information | X | X | X | |||
| Drug interactions |
X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Formulary information | X | X | ||||
| Guidelines | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Herbal interactions |
X | X | X | X | ||
| Inactive ingredients list |
X | |||||
| Missed dose guidance | X | X | X | |||
| Monitoring parameters | X | X | X | |||
| Overdose treatment guidance | X | X | ||||
| Pharmaco- genomics information |
X | X | X | X | X | |
| Pill identifier | X | X | X | X | ||
| Pricing information | X | X | X | X | ||
| Rx images | X | X | X | |||
| FPM rating (out of 5) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| App Store rating | 3.7 | 4 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 2 | 4.8 |
| Google Play rating | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.6 |
Read the full FPM article: “Six Mobile Apps to Make Prescribing Easier.”
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