Who has the best pharmacotherapy reference?

[Sparda29]

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I prefer using UptoDate but a lot of times when I message providers about incorrect dosing or anything else, they say they are using another reference like IDSA or Sanford or the John Hopkins Manual or Epocrates.

 

[Seriously Serious]

You can't go wrong pulling straight from the guidelines. I kinda view Uptodate as the Wikipedia of medicine.

 

[sadface]

I think UpToDate can vary in terms of the level of evidence each article is based on - sometimes only expert opinion vs closely based on guidelines with new updates from the literature compared to when the last guideline was published. I tend to check a couple resources (I do like John Hopkins antibiotic guide and Sanford although some of the ID docs I work with don’t strictly follow Sanford’s susceptibility chart) if I have time, otherwise would tend to favor the guidelines if they are recent.