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Red Book: Pharmacy's Fundamental Reference
PDR Editorial Staff

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2008 Edition
Softcover, 800 pages, 110th Edition  
ISBN 1563636719
9781563636714
Thomson Healthcare / Thomson PDR
May 2008
Price: $80.95
(click below for 2008 edition)

 

2009 Edition
Softcover, 800 pages
ISBN 1563637065
978-1563637063
Thomson Healthcare / Thomson PDR
June 2009
(click below for the very best available price for this 2009 edition)

 

2010 Edition
Softcover, 800 pages
ISBN 1563637510
9781563637513
Thomson Healthcare / Thomson PDR
June 2010
(click below for the very best available price for this 2010 edition)

 

Celebrating 110 years of service, Red Book remains pharmacy’s most reliable source for product information and prices on prescription drugs, OTC items, and reimbursable medical supplies.

With valuable clinical and pharmaceutical reference information, Red Book is the essential resource healthcare professionals reach for every day. The Red Book, with extensive updating and additions, not only brings you the latest pricing and product information on over 160,000 Rx and OTC items, but also includes a broad spectrum of the healthcare information you need — all in one volume — to cope with pharmacy’s changing role in the medical, pharmaceutical, and retail marketplace. This reference book contains:

  • Reimbursement Guide

  • Practice Management Resources

  • Pricing Information:

    • nationally recognized average wholesale prices (AWPs),

    • direct prices, and

    • federal upper limit prices for prescription drugs

  • Summaries of Pricing Changes

  • Suggested retail prices for OTC products

  • Listing of Products from Manufacturers

  • "Orange Book" codes - FDA-approved drug products with therapeutic equivalent evaluations

  • NDC numbers for all FDA-approved drugs (over 25,000 new NDCs added)

  • NCPDP Billing Standards

  • Pharmacy Buying Groups: Group Purchasing Organizations in the pharmaceutical marketplace

  • Comprehensive Directories of:

    • manufacturers,

    • pharmaceutical wholesalers, and

    • third-party administrators

In addition, Red Book is continually evolving to help you meet the challenges of the changing healthcare environment. Offering a wealth of reference information, Red Book delivers the instant answers you need to make decisions that affect your business. You’ll also find these convenient extra reference features:

  • Complete package information including dosage form, route of administration, strength, and size

  • A complete list of FDA-approved new molecular entities, generics, and OTC products

  • Full-color photographs of hundreds of Rx and OTC products

  • Guide to Leading Herbal / Alternative Medicines

  • Vitamin Comparison Table: Amounts of vitamins and minerals in over 50 popular multivitamin products

  • Common Laboratory Values: Answers to the most common patient questions about urine sugar level, cholesterol, blood pressure, and more

  • Summaries of the drug-food, drug-alcohol, and drug-tobacco interactions that you can adapt for patient use

  • Sugar-free, alcohol-free, lactose-, and galactose-free, and sulfite- containing product listings for customers with special needs

You may also be interested in subscribing to the Red Book Update, a monthly publication by the same publisher.

 

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