Introduction to Drug Info (AKA Hell) Systematic Approach my Ass Steps Steps and More Steps What's this DI Question? (What even is DI?) Categorize this Response (we went over them twice already)
100
What is Fee-for-Service
Drug information centers are funded by this type of service
100
What is 7
There are this many steps in the systematic approach
100
- what do you need to know?
- Describe patient
- Open-ended (probing) questions
- determine if the question is academic, general or patient-specific
How do you obtain demographics (name at least 2)
100
What is availability
A physician wants to know when a drug will be on the market
100
What is demographics
A patients telephone number
200
What is Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting (ADRs)
One of the major responsibilities of a DI practitioner is this type of reporting
200
What is to answer DI questions for healthcare professionals, family, friends, and of course patients
The goal of the Systematic approach is this
200
- utilize appropriate resources
- know various resources
- prioritize resources
- step-wise approach
**- general-to-specific searching**
- start broad and go into more detail
Strategizing and searching (name at least 3)
200
What is adverse effects
A patient wants to know if his cough is normal
200
What is Obtaining background information
What is the patient's age, weight, height, what is their condition, illness, what reaction are they having are examples of this step
300
What is evidence-based medicine
Drug info is focused on ______-______ ______, which represents how the information is determined to be accurate.
300
What is Obtain Background information
This is the hardest step in the DI systematic approach.
300
- Know how they want the response (written, typed, verbal)
- reference sources (have solid sources)
- organize your information and prepare a response
- Summarize findings
Collect, Evaluate and Synthesize (name 2)
300
What is dosing
The IV tech wants to make sure the pediatric patient is being given the right amount of drug
300
What is Search and strategize
I should probably check the Merck index for the answer to this question
400
What is need to know where to find information quick
Drug information is important as pharmacists for this reason.
400
What is True
True or False; Kinetics questions are questions that can be answered by the DI practitioners following the systematic approach
400
- Be confident
- restate the question
- BE ACCURATE
- Make recommendations
- identify limitations and flaws
Communicate the response (name 3)
400
What is Drug-Drug interactions

*bonus points also natural products
A woman is taking melatonin, KAVA, and triazolam. She is now in a coma. Is it because of what she took?
(bonus points if you name two types of DI questions)
400
What is obtaining background information
A patient has a dry cough and you ask how long they've had it
500
What are Poison control centers
These DI centers are run by Nurses and Pharmacists
500
What is Demographics, Background information, categorize the question, strategize and research, collect/evaluate/synthesize data, formulate/communicate response, and follow-up
The flow of steps in the systematic approach is this
500
The world may never know
Larry the Lobster or Redwanski?
500
What is conduct search/gather background
*next is to relay response to the patient (normal symptom)
**next-next step is to follow up with them to see if the cough disappeared in one to two weeks
A patient comes to you with a dry cough and you found out they recently started an ACE inhibitor
(bonus if you can name next step/s)






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