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Drug Information Services is located
on the main campus of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston.
Mission
Drug Information Services has a
dual mission:
- Provide healthcare practitioners
with timely, evidence-based drug information to promote the
safe, rational use of medications.
- Serve as a training site for
University of Rhode Island Doctor of Pharmacy students and
post-doctoral residents.
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Drug Information Services has expertise and is
available to assist in a variety of situations such as:
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Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee support
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Medication Use Evaluation development and support
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Drug therapy guideline development
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Accurate & Balanced
Questions from healthcare practitioners will be researched
thoroughly by Drug Information Services using the extensive
reference collection available at Drug Information Services
Library at Fogarty Hall, the University of Rhode Island Library,
and the Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN).
Timely
We understand that all questions are important. We do our best to
answer questions in a timely manner. Our priority for questions is
based on acuteness of need:
- Patient-specific questions,
- Questions dealing with general
patient care,
- Questions that do not directly
affect patient care.
Most questions can be answered
quickly; however, some questions may require more time to ensure a
thorough, complete response.
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The Director of the Drug Information Service is
Kristina Ward, Pharm.D., Clinical Assistant Professor.
The service is staffed by
Pharm.D. students in their final year during
their advanced practice experiential rotations under the direction of Dr.
Ward.
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Drug information questions may
include, but are not limited to:
- Therapeutic use of drugs and
therapeutic alternatives
- Appropriate dosing and admin-istration
- Toxicity of drugs (i.e., adverse
effects)
- Drug-drug, drug-food
inter-actions
- Dosing adjustments for renal/
hepatic insufficiency
- Drug use in pregnancy and
lactation
- Pharmacokinetics
- Drug monitoring for efficacy and
toxicity
- Intravenous compatibility
- Alternative medications and
natural products
- Foreign drugs
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© University
of Rhode Island
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For more
information, contact:
College of Pharmacy
Fogarty Hall, 41 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401-874-5842, Fax: 401-874-2181
E-mail:
pharmcol@etal.uri.edu.
The
University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
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