Special feature : Searching Medical Information. The Search for Essential Medical Books |
| Michiko NOGUCHI (Hokkai Gakuen University, Course of Library Science) |
| Abstract : Are there any essential books in each medical subject's field? Brandon/Hill list answers this question since there is no specific definition of the essential medical books in Japan. The minimal core list chosen out of Brandon/Hill list, including traditional eponymous books which are important, shows them as reference tools. Eighty-two books in the minimal core list are output from NACSIS Webcat, and they are compared with two publishers' possession condition. The databese on the website is getting important in the internet age to search for the essential medical books. |
| Keywords : Medical book / Essential book / Brandonl/Hill List / NACSIS Webcat / Internet / Publisher |
Special feature : Searching Medical Information. Obtaining necessary drug information from the preprints |
| Keiko UEHARA (Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center Literature Information Division) |
| Abstract : We have studied whether or not the preprints prepared by the Medical Society are useful for collecting specific drug information, taking troglitazone as an example. Our conclusion is that since the reports that are made at the meetings of the Medical Society always provide valuable information on specific drugs, particularly on their safety, the preprints, a collection of such reports, can be used as an effective tool for collecting necessary drug information, if the purposes for which they are compiled and the limits of their availability are correctly understood. |
| Keywords : meeting / preprint / drug information / troglitazone |
Special feature : Searching Medical Information. Data source for Medical Facilities and patient in Japan |
| Takeshi KAWAGUCHI (Showa University Depertment of Public Health) |
| Abstract : : It is difficult to estimate the number of patients accurately. Whenever you utilize some data to estimate the number of patients in some areas, you should know both where the data come from and how data collected. Each Survey is conducted according to its own purpose. The estimated numbers of patients in same categories are different in each Survey. So you have to consider the figure of the patients with the uses of several kind of data source. Introduced here about the date collecting system of several kind of the Patient surveys and the Mortality Statistics in Japan. |
| Keywords : Number of patients / Patient survey / Data source / Survey of Medical facility / Mortality (Vital statistics). |
Special feature : Searching Medical Information. Approach to Drug Information |
| Junko AMIMOTO (Drug Information Department, Pharmaceutical Information Center, Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.) |
| Abstract : To make the medicines effective by the proper use, the information such as efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics, physicochemical property and so on is indispensable. For such a purpose, the most standard and frequently used reference is called as Drug Information, which is the information accumulated and condensed throughout the period from investigational stage to post-marketing surveillance. The representative sources for Drug Information and how to use them are described in this report. In addition, Drug Information has been available recently on the internet through the web sites introduced also in this report. |
| Keywords : Drug Information / Package insert / Pharmacopoeia / Drug monographs / Interview form / Web sites / Information retrieval / Databases |
Special feature : Searching Medical Information. Searching the information on drug adverse reactions |
| Koichi ITAYA (Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Sapporo Medical University) |
| Abstract : It was discussed from three aspects that what the drug adverse reaction itself is. 1. From the point of the incidence, the situation, and the graduation. 2. From the point of the regal regulation of the course from occurring of a drug adverse reaction to being fixed as an information. 3. How to search the information of drug adverse reactions and how to use the literatures and the information in a hospital pharmacy. Also the importance of the primitive common sense was discussed. |
| Keywords : information search / drug adverse reactions / information on adverse reaction / graduations of drug adverse reaction / classification of drug adverse reactions |