Drug Dosing Issues and Resources

Several institutions, as well as drug data vendors, have constructed dose range checking content. In many cases, the institutions have learned that this can be a difficult process to complete and maintain. Reliance on a drug reference book such as the Pediatric Dosage Handbook to create these data technically is outside of the terms of use, and leaves open the issue of maintenance and timely modification as new information appears in the literature.

Without a valid model to identify, acquire, evaluate, and publish. Dosage precautions which are not actively supported by this type of surveillance typically fall out of date rather rapidly. Pediatric dose calculations can be limited, and therapeutic dosages which are supported in the literature may be identified as outside the range. This type of over-alerting is a source of frustration. Lexicomp has worked with its partners to transform the content of the Handbook into a database with associated APIs to execute dose range checking for pediatrics. In addition, these data are actively modified in conjunction with the normal process of maintaining this publication. In this way, the user can integrate dose range checking simply, with the assurance that the data are continuously updated and expanded.