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Published on: June 11, 2012
[The drug information service in the hospital]
1Departement Innere Medizin, Abteilung für Klinische Pharmacokologie und Toxikologie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
Abstract:
A Drug Information Service (MID) delivers competent information, free from influences of industry. Users are mainly physicians and pharmacists, who are not able to solve a particular pharmacologic problem by their own means. For many years such MIDs are operated in several countries by clinical pharmacists. In Switzerland, too, there is particular interest in drug-oriented information for years. In this article a short overview on basic informations and first experiences concerning this domain are presented.
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