Drug information made available to the population via Internet from a Pharmacy Department

• Published in: Farmacia hospitalaria Vol. 27; no. 6; p. 353
• Main Authors: Beorlegui Martincorena, B, Ortega Eslava, A, Aquerreta González, I, Aldaz Pastor, A, Lacasa Arregui, C, Idoate García, A, Conchillo Armendáriz, A, Giráldez Deiró, J, Morales De Alava, I, Yuste Ara, J R, García González, N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Spain 01-11-2003
• Subjects: Drug Information Services; Internet
• ISSN: 1130-6343

To describe and discuss the work of a Pharmacy Department for the health-care portal www.viatusalud.com.
Using a web portal, a Pharmacy Department develops and updates a vademecum on drugs, and answers enquiries by end-users.
On December 31, 2002 more than 750 records on drugs were available, and 3030 enquiries had been answered.
With this drug information and online enquiry service, our Pharmacy Department helps meet the demand of health-care information posed by the community and by patients previously seen at Clínica Universitaria. In addition, it allows areas of improvement to be detected in the information to be offered to patients fron a Pharmacy Department, and represents a tertiary source of information for health-care professionals.