Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Pictured is the 38th edition of Martindale, published in June 2014.
Author Edited by Alison Brayfield
Country United Kingdom
Language British English
Subject Pharmacy
Genre Pharmacy reference
Publisher Pharmaceutical Press
Publication date
June 2014
Pages 4688
ISBN 978-0-85711-139-5
Preceded by 978-0-85369-933-0

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 180,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes almost 700 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, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.

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 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.

Arrangement

Martindale is arranged into two main parts followed by three extensive indexes:

Digital versions include an additional 1,000 drug monographs, 60,000 preparation names, and 5,000 manufacturers.

List of the editions

To date there have been 38 editions of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference. The 38th edition was published in June 2014.

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