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Staff
Objectives
 To provide health care professionals with immediate access to objective, concise and unbiased information on drug
therapy problems.
To supplement the continuing education of all health care professionals through the publishing and distribution of
articles and newsletters which keep clinicians aware of the latest information on drug therapy.
To provide both experiential and didactic training in drug information for pharmacy students and residents.
To provide services such as formulary management, Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee drug monographs,
medication usage evaluation services, clinical practice guidelines, and disease state management services in a
contractual manner.
Services
The DILRC maintains an up-to-date, pharmacotherapy-oriented reference collection of pharmaceutical, medical and scientific journals, textbooks, and computer databases. In addition, the DILRC subscribes to numerous abstracting, indexing and computerized information retrieval services. These resources serve to answer questions from the following categories:
Adverse Drug Reactions
Alternative Medicine
Compounding
Dosing, Dosing Schedule, and Routes of Administration
Drug Availability
Drug Identification (domestic and foreign)
Drug Interactions (Drug-Drug, Drug-Food, Drug-Lab)
Drug use during Pregnancy and Lactation
Investigational Drug Information
IV Compatibility and Stability
Legal Requirements
Pharmacokinetics
Therapeutic Alternatives
Therapeutic Indications
Mission Statement
Overall Mission:
To provide unbiased drug information as a support to Alabama health care professionals for use in patient care,
education and research.
Education Mission:
To provide pharmacy students and residents with the opportunity and training to learn and develop drug
information skills.
Research Mission:
To collaborate and contribute to the areas of drug information practice, drug policy and medication criteria
development and drug education research.
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