[3 years of "new developments" in pharmacotherapy. An update which is also a proposal for participative...

The analysis of the contents of key national and international drug bulletins provides a comprehensive overview of what has been produced worldwide in the field of pharmacology and therapeutics over the last few years after the last publication in R d 1). The work presented, tries to avoid the risk of being a purely descriptive listing of true and false "new" information, and may be seen as an "experiment of information transfer": the available data are presented and summarised from various complementary points of view, to suggest also a methodology of permanent education, for which instruments are also proposed. Further, the text is tentatively proposed as an experiment of communication between nurses and pharmacists, to stimulate their dialogue and interaction both with respect to the use of drug literature and to the evaluation of daily needs of information in routine hospital practice.