Swiss Medicines Compendium
The Swiss Medicines Compendium , or Compendium for short, is a list of medicinal products that contains the official information for medicines on the Swiss market. It is developed in cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry and has been published by Documed AG in Basel since 1978 . Since January 2013, the drug compendium has been based on the original data of the drug information , which is provided in the drug information publication system AIPS of the licensing authority Swissmedic . Compared to the AIPS, the drug compendium offers some additional services such as an interaction test and a therapeutic register, which are only accessible to health professionals.
The drug compendium was published annually as a book until 2013 and comprised around 4,000 pages. Between the editions it was regularly supplemented with supplements. In 1998 an online version was also launched. Since 2014, the drug compendium has only been available in electronic form. In the meantime, the compendium was also available on CD-ROM and as an application for the mobile operating system Apple iOS .
Like the approval of medicinal products, information on medicinal products and their publication are also subject to strict legal requirements. The drug information for medical professionals and specialist drug dealers (“ specialist information ”) as well as the drug information for patients (“ patient information ”) are intended to ensure the correct prescription and administration of a drug . The content of the monographs , the manner of publication and distribution in the Swiss healthcare system is specified by the licensing authority Swissmedic. The specialist editorial team at Documed ensures that the individual specialist information is standardized in terms of content and form and that it is published in accordance with the law.
Information
The drug compendium contains the specialist information in alphabetical order of the preparations. These are also made accessible through registers of active substances, therapeutic registers and company registers. The specialist information in the drug compendium contains the following information:
- Name of preparation / manufacturer
- composition
- Galenic form and amount of active ingredient per unit
- Indications / possible uses
- Dosage / application
- Contraindications
- Warnings and Precautions
- Interactions
- Pregnancy / lactation
- Effects on ability to drive and use machines
- unwanted effects
- Overdose
- Properties / effects
- Pharmacokinetics
- Preclinical data
- Other notes
- Approval number
- Packs
- Marketing authorization holder
- State of information
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After the 2013 book edition, only current electronic publications. Retrieved March 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Christof Forster: Concerns about patient safety. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 13, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2014 .