Preparation information

Preparation descriptions represent drug or non-drug entities covering medications, appliances and dressings.

Many years’ experience in the drug database market and our adherence to our internal editorial policies has enabled us to develop a lengthy list of synonyms and keywords that provide additional searching capabilities for the fast retrieval of preparations via their common abbreviations or previous names.

Mentor drug database supplies the following information:

• Availability
• Schedule category
• NHS status
• Adverse monitoring status
• Equivalent products (generic to proprietary switching)
• Prescription charges
• Dispensing fees
• ACBS indicator
• Nurse formulary indicator
• Legal category
• Maximum daily dose quantity
• Drug tariff payment category
• Weekly dosage indicator
• Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) virtual and actual medicinal product identifiers
• Mappings to NHS drug and appliance dictionary Clinical Terms.

Preparations are associated with the following pack information, with or without a specific manufacturer:

• Availability
• Manufacturer reference code (appliances)
• EAN code
• Price
• Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) virtual and actual medicinal product pack identifiers.