General & Miscellaneous - Medicine, Medical Reference, Pharmacy, Pharmacology
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Overview
Celebrating 109 years of service, RED BOOK remains pharmacy's most reliable source for product information for prices on prescription drugs, OTC items, and reimbursable medical supplies. With valuable clinical and pharmaceutical reference information, RED BOOK is the essential resource healthcare professionals reach for every day.The NEW 2005 RED BOOK, with extensive updating and additions, not only brings you the latest pricing and product information on over 100,000 Rx and OTC items, but also includes a broad spectrum of the healthcare information you need - all in one volume - to cope with pharmacy's changing role in the medical, pharmaceutical, and retail marketplace.
With healthcare rapidly changing, there is still one source for all your needs - comprehensive RED BOOK pricing and descriptive information, including:
- Practice management
- Nationally recognized average wholesale prices (AWPs), direct prices, and federal upper limit prices for prescription drugs
- Suggested retail prices for OTC products
- NDC numbers for all FDA-approved drugs
- Complete package information including dosage form, route of administration, strength, and size
- "Orange Book" codes - FDA-approved drug products with therapeutic equivalent evaluations
- Vitamin Comparison Table: Amounts of vitamins and minerals in over 50 popular multivitamin products
- Common Laboratory Values: Answers to the most common patient questions about urine sugar level, cholesterol, blood pressure, and more
- Guide to Leading Herbal/Alternative Medicines
- Pharmacy Buying Groups: Group Purchasing Organizations in the pharmaceutical marketplace
- NCPDP Billing Standards
- Summaries of the drug-food, drug-alcohol, and drug-tobacco interactions that you can adapt for patient use
- Sugar-free, alcohol-free, lactose-, and galactose-free, and sulfite- containing product listings for customers with special needs
- A complete list of FDA-approved new molecular entities, generics, and OTC products
- Comprehensive manufacturer, pharmaceutical wholesaler, and third-party administrator directories
- Full-color photographs of hundreds of Rx and OTC products
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Thomas Jacobsen, PharmD, MS, RPh, FASCP(ViroPharma Incorporated)Description: The Red Book has been published for more than a century, providing professionals with clinical and practical information on drugs. This is the 2005 edition.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide pharmacists, buyers, and other industry decision makers up-to-date drug prices and product information.
Audience: This is geared towards practicing professionals who need access to pricing, manufacturing, clinical, and reimbursement information.
Features: The Red Book provides monthly updates to supplement the larger book. New to this edition are sections on emergency and reimbursement information. Of particular use is the full color product identification guide.
Assessment: Although, much of the information found in the book is available in most pharmacy computer systems, it is still a worthwhile backup reference to have in the pharmacy.
3 Stars from Doody
Book Details
Published
June 20, 2005
Publisher
Thomson PDR
Pages
864
Format
Paperback, 0012
ISBN
9781563635090