Structure
• Chapters: Bring together treatment reviews and related drugs and drug classes. Nested documents keep common information together, enable comparisons and reduce repetition; cross references link relevant information. Practice points give tips and advice.
• Treatment: Summarises evidence and clinical practice for a condition and gives context for drug treatment. Discusses and compares the role of different classes and individual drugs in treating the condition.
• Drug Class: Cross refers to Treatment(s). Provides information common to all members, e.g. mode of action, contraindications, adverse effects. Comparative information describes differences between class members.
• Drug Monograph: If a drug is a class member it cross refers to Class for essential information common to the group. If not in a class it may refer to Treatment(s). Contains specific information for individual drugs, e.g. dosage, indications and products.
• Appendices: Include drug interactions, electrolytes, laboratory reference ranges and contact information
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