Patient safety features

Developed and maintained in-house, our expert team of pharmacists, clinicians and researchers ensure that patient safety is always a paramount consideration for the Mentor drug database.

Mentor Drug Database can hugely reduce the risk of incorrect prescribing and supports clinical staff in individual prescribing decisions and drug assessments. In UK general practice, Mentor drug database is used to prescribe over 400 million items per year.

Healthcare professionals with access to the information in Mentor drug database means patients are less likely to be given the wrong drug or the wrong combination of drugs.

Mentor drug database includes built-in prescribing safeguards that alert staff to potential drug interactions and contraindications for individual patients.

Standardised dosages avoid daily and weekly dosage confusion, along with other safeguards such as interface alert messages, early repeat prescription warnings and prescribing notes that alert users to products with similar sounding names.

The safety information contained in Mentor drug database enables healthcare systems to deliver the following checks:

• Drug to drug interactions
• Contra-indications
• Adverse drug reactions
• Side-effects
• Dosage checks
• Active ingredients
• Therapeutic class
• Licensed indications
• CSM -- Black Triangle drugs
• Legal classification
• Labelling information
• Duplicate therapy.

When integrated with a clinical system, Mentor drug database is able to provide safety checks based upon a patient's medical record ensuring that the alerts are appropriate and provide accurate and reliable decision support during each consultation.

Updates and best practice

A team of dedicated staff constantly update the state-of-the-art database with new or revised drug information as it's released.

Any announcements from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO updates) and National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) guidelines are included, ensuring that the most up-to-date best practice guidelines are available and help to promote safer prescribing.