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Development and Use of an Independent Drug Information Centre in India
Author(s) -
Lakshmi PK,
Gayathridevi S
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy practice and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2055-2335
pISSN - 1445-937X
DOI - 10.1002/jppr200232124
Subject(s) - medicine , dissemination , health professionals , pharmacy , drug , family medicine , identification (biology) , health care , project commissioning , information dissemination , health information , information resource , medical emergency , publishing , pharmacology , world wide web , knowledge management , telecommunications , botany , computer science , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
The Karnataka State Pharmacy Council established its Drug Information Centre in August 1997 to disseminate unbiased drug information to healthcare professionals. In March 2000, we undertook activities to promote the services provided by the drug information centre to health professionals and to patients. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of queries corning into the centre from all client groups. In 2000‐01, almost half of the enquiries (47%) came from pharmacists, 30% from doctors and 19% from patients. Queries requiring patient counselling and literature searches were most common, followed by requests for information on product availability and identification, contraindications and safety, and the drug profile. Electronic databases were the most useful drug information resource.