Martindale: The complete drug reference
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Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press
listing some 6,000 drug
s and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 161,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes 675 disease treatment reviews. It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia.
Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal
and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccine
s, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticide
s.
It provides a useful source of information for patients arriving from abroad to identify their existing medication. This may reveal that a currently taken proprietary preparation is available under another brand name. Alternatively if the drug is not available, the class of agent can be determined allowing a pharmacist
or doctor to determine which alternative equivalent drugs can be substituted. Monographs include Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS), Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
(ATC) numbers and FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier
(UNII) codes to help readers refer to other information systems.
Digital versions include an additional 1,100 drug monographs, 46,000 preparation names, and 6,700 manufacturers.
Pharmaceutical Press
Pharmaceutical Press is the publishing division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society...
listing some 6,000 drug
Drug
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.In pharmacology, a...
s and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 161,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes 675 disease treatment reviews. It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia.
Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal
Herbal
AThe use of a or an depends on whether or not herbal is pronounced with a silent h. herbal is "a collection of descriptions of plants put together for medicinal purposes." Expressed more elaborately — it is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their...
and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccine
Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins...
s, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticide
Pesticide
Pesticides are substances or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest.A pesticide may be a chemical unicycle, biological agent , antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any pest...
s.
International usefulness
Martindale aims to cover drugs and related substances reported to be of clinical interest anywhere in the world.It provides a useful source of information for patients arriving from abroad to identify their existing medication. This may reveal that a currently taken proprietary preparation is available under another brand name. Alternatively if the drug is not available, the class of agent can be determined allowing a pharmacist
Pharmacist
Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...
or doctor to determine which alternative equivalent drugs can be substituted. Monographs include Chemical Abstracts Service
Chemical Abstracts Service
Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...
(CAS), Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System is used for the classification of drugs. It is controlled by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology , and was first published in 1976....
(ATC) numbers and FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier
Unique Ingredient Identifier
The UNique Ingredient Identifier is a non-proprietary, free, unique, unambiguous, non-semantic, alphanumeric identifier linked to a substance’s molecular structure and/or descriptive information by the Substance Registration System of the Food and Drug Administration...
(UNII) codes to help readers refer to other information systems.
Arrangement
Martindale is arranged into two main parts followed by three extensive indexes:- MonographMonographA monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
s on drugs and ancillary substances, listing 5,930 monographs arranged in 49 chapters based on clinical use with the corresponding disease treatment reviews. Monographs summarize the nomenclature, properties, and actions of each substance. A chapter on supplementary drugs and other substances covers some 1095 monographs on new drugs, those not easily classified, herbals, and drugs no longer clinically used but still of interest. Monographs of some toxic substances are also included. - Preparations - including over 161,000 items from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.
- Directory of Manufacturers listing some 15,300 entries.
- Multilingual Pharmaceutical Terms: this index lists nearly 5,600 pharmaceutical terms and routes of administration in 13 major European languages as an aid to the non-native speaker in interpreting packaging, product information, or prescriptions written in another language.
- General index: prepared from 172,000 entries it includes approved names, synonyms and chemical names; a separate Cyrillic section lists nonproprietary and proprietary names in Russian and Ukrainian.
Digital versions include an additional 1,100 drug monographs, 46,000 preparation names, and 6,700 manufacturers.