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CPS

Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties This link opens in a new window
CPhA is the trusted source of education, information, tools, and resources to support safe and effective medication use and optimal drug therapy outcomes for pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other health care practitioners. ACCESS is limited to one simultaneous user.

Under Drugs/Conditions you will find the following modules:

Therapeutic Choices
Minor Ailments

These are useful for clinical information for over 200 common medical conditions organized alphabetically or by body system.

Under Resources you will find:

Health Canada Advisories & Reporting Forms
Information about public drug programs

Under Lexi-Interact you will find a drug-drug or drug-food combinations interaction checker.

PEN

PEN - Practice Based Evidence in Nutrition This link opens in a new window
Evidence-based answers to everyday practice questions; key practice points that have been synthesized from the literature by experts. Includes four knowledge pathways: Population Health/Lifecycle, Health Condition/Disease, Food/Nutrients and Professional Practice. Developed by Dietitians of Canada.

PEN provides access to timely and authoritative guidance on food and nutrition. It offers evidence-based answers to the questions encountered in every day practice. It contains the following and more:

Summaries
Systematic reviews (such as Cochrane Reviews)
Guideline

Cochrane Clinical Answers

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. High quality, independent evidence central to informed healthcare decision-making.
* Full text articles

Select Cochrane Clinical Answers at the top to find research summaries from Cochrane reviews.