Discussion
Sunday September 5, 1999 - Question 2
You are giving a lecture to pharmacy students rotating through the poison center, a student asks about the limitations of Micromedex® products. What should they be told?
A. A lag time of several months may occur between the time information is published in a medical journal and it is entered into Micromedex®.
B. Information entered/not entered into Micromedex® is not subject to inadvertent reviewer bias.
C. Errors have not been found in Micromedex® products.
D. Micromedex® products have no limitations.
E. Most printed and computerized references do
not have the same limitations as the Micromedex® products.