As a hospital pharmacists, there are a wide range of resources I refer to every day while doing my job. These are the ones that I utilise regularly or would be lost without.
Great resources to help with decision making around deprescribing medicines for patients
Deprescribing.org - Optimizing Medication Use
A must have resource if changing patients from one opioid to another
Opioid Calculator
I use this every day as a pharmacist
Australian Medicines Handbook
This program makes it so much easier to generate reports for my home medicines reviews
i3Soft
Drug interaction checker, pill identifier, don't rush to crush, there are great resources here
Monthly Index of Medical Specialities
Assistance with deprescribing medicines, assessing anticholinergic burden and decision support tool
G-MEDSS
Formerly SHPA, a great way to connect with other pharmacists, share knowledge and great learning resources
Advanced Pharmacy Australia: Home
Their vast array of learning resources makes meeting my annual learning requirements an absolute breeze
- Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
The antibiotic issue, plus some of the decision support guides are invaluable to my practice.
Therapeutic Guidelines: Independent, reliable and respected
Unfortunately no longer supported, this website still contains some great patient resources that are simple and easy to read.
NPS MedicineWise
Great pictorial resource of all inhalers currently available in australia. Easy to complete asthma and COPD action plans. Great collection of videos demonstrating how to use an inhaler for patient education, as well as tips and tricks for each device...
National Asthma Council Australia
A great range of medical calculators for a wide range of situations. Even better, they are all free!
GlobalRPH: Medical Calculators, Clinicians Guide To Drug Therapy
