PRODUCTS

The Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) is a rich source of referential medicines information helping clinicians with their decision making prior to selecting a medication or with the ongoing care of patients throughout their treatment. It is a vital resource for pharmacists seeking decision support in a Medicines Use Review and includes:

Drug Indications
Comprehensive and detailed information about both licensed and recognised unlicensed drug indications, enabling users to determine whether the medication is appropriate for their patient. Future developments include some automation around this decision making process.

Dosing and administration
The provision of detailed dosing and administration information supports initial and ongoing dosing, highlighting the additional factors or patient parameters that may influence ongoing decision making such as age, renal and hepatic impairment and other co-morbidities.

Monitoring information
Advice on baseline measures or ongoing monitoring of patient parameters helps to ensure that the desired therapeutic effect is achieved while managing the potential for adverse drug reactions. Drug warnings also offer clinicians support on the identification and management of adverse drug reactions and any associated discontinuation advice.

Counselling
Our counselling information enables patients to get the best out of their medicines and recognise the signs and symptoms of potentially serious or expected mild adverse drug reactions. 

Links to Patient Information Leaflets are also provided enabling full information about the medicine to be made available in a style that is appropriate to patients.

Mandatory instructions are designed to support the community pharmacist with the counselling of the patient and with the automated labelling of counselling messages on the dispensable medication. A flag is available to indicate those counselling or labelling messages that are identified within the BNF.

Pregnancy and lactation
Detailed information is provided about the potential hazards of taking a medication when pregnant, including information to support clinicians treating newly pregnant patients already taking the medication. Information is also provided about the potential effect of a drug on lactation or the potential effect on the infant if lactation is continued during treatment. Our information is an amalgamation of the information provided by leading reference sources, offered in a concise style that makes it quick to refer to in a consultation.

Multilex DDF’s reference information may be used within a clinical system in conjunction with the active clinical checking functionality or, where the patient information is unavailable to support active checking, it may be used on its own. For organisations that do not have a clinical system, FDBE makes this information available in a stand-alone application, the Multilex Browser. It may also be made available on handheld devices to support mobile healthcare professionals or on a Toughbook device to support emergency care workers.