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Brief guide to using Micromedex

micromedexWith your OpenAthens login you can access the MARTINDALE’S pharmacology information provided by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.  Look for the button on our Intranet site or click here

Unfortunately we do not have full access to all the features of Micromedex, but we do have access to Martindale’s and the Micromedex app.

Enter your OpenAthens details and click on buttonmicro-entry

 

Where to begin once logged in?micro-type

 

Here is an example of clicking on the results

You are presented with the drug choice (cabozantinib) and the drug group choice (Antineoplastics).  Explore each and you will get slightly different information.  Look at the information on the choice of antineoplastics to see what cancers can be treated with this group of drugs

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Other useful features

  1. Select the calculators for dosing tools e.g. IV rate calculator
  2. Download the mobile app.  The password is updated on the 1st March each year so make sure yours is in date

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