Services Offered by the Butler DI Center
The Butler University Drug Information Service is equipped to
handle a vast array of medical questions pertaining to the safe and
effective use of prescription and over-the-counter medications.
Common request categories include:
- Adverse medication reactions
- Appropriate dosing and therapies for neonates, pediatrics,
geriatrics, and renally or hepatically impaired patients
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Compatibility
- Cross-sensitivities and allergic reactions
- Dietary supplements, herbal products, and over-the counter
medications
- Drug interactions (drug-drug, drug-disease state,
drug-laboratory value, drug-herb, or drug-dietary supplement)
- Extemporaneous compounding
- Foreign medications
- Investigational medications
- Laboratory value interpretation
- Medication identification
- Medication use during pregnancy or lactation
- Newly approved medications
- Off-label medication uses
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacy law
- Stability
- Much more