Product Description

This is the authoritative prescribing resource of choice for healthcare professionals. Compiled with the advice of clinical experts, this essential reference provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. It includes the BNF details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contraindications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs. Updated in print every six months, the BNF reflects current best practice as well as legal and professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines.The BNF is also available online as part of Medicines Complete, on PDA and on also CD-ROM for intranets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42473 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 946 pages

Customer Reviews

UK guide for prescribers
Many new drugs and dressings become available each year, each one promoted by manufacturers using technicolour pictures, technicolour language and (carefully chosen) statistics. The British National Formulary is an attempt to provide a safe passage through these minefields and guide non specialist doctors, nurses and pharmacists through areas with which they are less familiar.

Jointly published by the British Medical Association, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Department of Health with representation from the British Dental Association and nursing bodies, a new edition is published every six months. Each edition contains a brief essay on groups of drugs for a particular condition and is updated using the latest research and drug trials.

The book has grown over 25 years from a slim volume of lists to an authoratative and up to date summary of the best in UK prescribing. Perhaps the greatest compliment is that as local health authorities produce local formularies for hospital and general practice (to allow for local conditions), most follow the layout and subject headings of the BNF.

There are also comprehensive appendices dealing with side effects, interactions, use in pregnancy etc.