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Supporting Primary Care Organisations and GPs
Multilex DDF is a core component of almost all UK GP clinical systems and a growing number of new systems designed to support the needs of Primary Care Organisations. It provides valuable information that enables safer prescribing, dispensing and active decision support at the point of care. Multilex DDF can also be used as a useful stand alone reference source.
Medicines Management solutions for Primary Care
The data within Multilex DDF can be used:
- as a drug information source
- in formulary development
- in PACT analysis
- to give advice on effective prescribing
- to reduce the occurrence of prescribing errors.
When integrated into clinical systems, Multilex DDF carries out the following checks:
- drug-drug interactions
- allergy or sensitivity alerts
- contraindications
- drug or therapeutic doubling precautions and warnings
Messages and alerts can be filtered according to the patient’s age, sex and medical condition, including pregnancy, lactation, hepatic and renal conditions. Integrating Multilex DDF helps reduce the occurrence of prescribing and dispensing errors and reinforces patient safety.
Multilex DDF is also used as a drug information source and by providing information on brands, and their generic equivalents, helps to support cost-effective prescribing and formulary development. As Multilex DDF is used by system suppliers across the whole healthcare community it can assist Primary Care Organisations in the collation and analysis of prescribing data and help ensure that NSF guidelines are met.
Professional Quality
First DataBank Europe has a large team of in-house pharmacists, clinical researchers and software developers that maintain and support Multilex DDF and related software. The company operates a Quality Management System that is certified to the latest ISO 9001:2000 standard. Audited editorial policies are strictly followed to ensure that all clinical data is professionally processed prior to release.
Comprehensive Content
Multilex DDF holds a vast range of information on all the products that GPs or Primary Care Organisations might need to record or analyse. It holds information on more than 50,000 product and pack records including:
- all branded prescription medicines
- generic medicinal products
- Pharmacy and General Sales List medicines
- appliances included in the Drug Tariff
- supplementary and specialist dietary foods
- diagnostic and monitoring agents
- homeopathic remedies
- other NHS prescribable products
Clinical and Commercial Data
The data within Multilex DDF can be viewed in different ways - as short messages and alerts for active checking within clinical systems or as Multilex Monographs for more detailed reference. Multilex DDF contains information on product availability and prescribability such as:
- equivalent products
- pack sizes
- manufacturers’ trade prices
- flavours (where appropriate)
- Drug Tariff (England and Wales) information
- Drug Tariff (Scotland) information
- Sugar free (oral liquid medicines)
Links to Valuable Reference Sources
Multilex DDF provides links directly to Patient Information Leaflets and TICTAC product images.
Multilex DDF is integrated into the majority of GP clinical systems. Please refer to our Customer details for more information. |
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