International Usefulness
Martindale aims to cover drugs and related substances reported to be of clinical interest anywhere in the world. It provides a useful source of information for patients arriving from abroad to identify their existing medication. This may reveal that a currently taken proprietary preparation is available under another brand name. Alternatively if the drug is not available, the class of agent can be determined allowing a pharmacist or doctor to determine which alternative equivalent drugs can be substituted. Monographs include Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC) numbers and FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) codes to help readers refer to other information systems.
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