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A tutorial on how to use the Epocrates website. Most useful for health professionals.

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  • The website

  • Click on Epocrates online

  • It contains information about drugs

  • Drug use

  • Appropriate drug dosage

  • Drug form

  • Lists a group of persons who cant take the medicine

  • Lists the possible reactions of a person to a drug

  • Lists drugs that could interact with another drug

  • Lists its safety for pregnancy and lactation

  • Drug pharmacology

  • A doctor can check the drug price

  • Drug alternatives

  • Features a disease tab

  • A concise discussion of a disease

  • Features a calculator tab

  • Computation of Allowable blood loss

  • Features a Drug interaction tab

  • Used to determine interactions between 2 or more drugs

  • Features a tables tab

  • A useful table in Dermatology

  • For identification of an unknown drug

  • Patient Resources tab

  • For patient information