Manual medication
The Medicines Handbook is a standard work published by Stiftung Warentest on the use and effectiveness of medicines . It was designed journalistically by the biologist Annette Bopp and the pharmacist Vera Herbst and is currently in print in the ninth edition. The contents can be called up on the website Medicines in the test . The pharmacist Gerd Glaeske was the final reviewer of the manual.
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On the nearly fifteen hundred pages of the manual, around seven thousand frequently prescribed drugs are listed and their effects are evaluated. Unlike the Red List, it is not aimed at specialist groups, but rather provides personal information about drugs and treatments with drugs, independent of doctors.
It also describes the symptoms and causes of numerous diseases, describes the mode of action of the drugs and gives advice on how to take the drugs. The product information with the respective active ingredients, their evaluation and their costs are presented in tables, and any drug interaction is also discussed.
The online database currently contains around ten thousand reviews for almost two hundred application areas. Each drug is assessed according to the current state of science by a panel of twenty technical experts who sift through the associated scientific literature and classify the drugs into four suitability categories.
Both the manual and the online database show that taking many drugs is not harmful, but that these often have no proven effect.
Web links
- Special edition Handbook Medicines - Prescribed by a doctor. Rated for you.
- Stiftung Warentest - Medicines in the test , Pharmazeutische Zeitung (December 2012)
- Stiftung Warentest - Handbook Medicines 2011 , Schattenblick, MA-Verlag, review of the eighth edition of June 10, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry German National Library , accessed on October 7, 2014
- ↑ Medicines in the test , test.de , July 15, 2014, accessed on October 7, 2014
- ↑ Rosemarie Stein: "Handbook Medicines": Knowing what the doctor prescribes , Tagesspiegel from July 4, 2001, accessed on October 7, 2014
- ^ Stiftung Warentest: "Medicines in the Test" database , Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2012; 109 (17): A-872 / B-749 / C-745, accessed October 7, 2014
- ↑ Stiftung Warentest: Only every third drug works , bild.de from October 7, 2014 - 11:53 a.m., accessed on October 7, 2014