CPS by CPhA app for iPhone and iPad
CPS (formerly RxTx) has a new appearance. CPS is still the reliable, evidence-based drug resource it has always been and provides essential drug information at the point-of-care for health care practitioners. Now offering two subscription options – CPS Drug Information or CPS Full Access. CPS Drug Information is the Canadian standard for drug monographs, containing thousands of products including monographs for drugs, vaccines, natural health products and medical devices, approved by Health Canada. CPS Full Access includes all content from CPS Drug Information and the most current, evidence-based therapeutic information and non-prescription therapy for most common conditions, with cross-referenced drug tables and algorithms and DC condition-based drug tables. Both subscriptions types provide critical updates such as warnings and advisories; and useful tools such as medical calculators.
Pros and cons of CPS by CPhA app for iPhone and iPad
CPS by CPhA app good for
The content of Drugs and Conditions is from the drug tables of the Canadian Pharmacists Associations publication called Therapeutic Choices, a well known Canadian evidence based therapeutic resource.
Good reference for everyday primary care issues. Not as thorough as other references eg. Doses in renal failure, but easy to read and straight to the point. I have started to use/test it in my practice. I hope it will be updated regularly.
2012-02-11 Less info than in the book, but otherwise it could weight 2gigs. Handy and easy to consult, its more than generic people could know. And its free for a month.
Surprisely, its impossible to find where what costs how... Not a good marketing way...
I gather the CPA is no longer going to send out our blue CPS bibles. If you have a CMA membership, you can get your free yearly access to this apps CPS by going through the CMA website. This app is probably sucking a lot of memory as others have commented on. I have just downloaded it and briefly looked at it. I like what I have seen so far, beats running around looking for the latest blue book. We may also have CPS access online, through the computer somehow, I dont know.
Some bad moments
Not enough info. For medication no info about renal insufficiency. The medical condition section is too basic to be of any use. Hopefully it will improve with time an compete with epocrates and other similar products, but still include canadian names for medications
I had apps that require an account set up and login. This app is a waste.
As compared to epocrates, md consult and lexidrugs this app is waste of time. Info is very basic and simplified and may of use to pharmacist but not enough for clinicians.
This app is for those lived 99 years ago!!!!so primitive plz dont waste ur time DL or even Review
Does not have half the info in the CPS. Stick to the book or online version.
Having a iphone version of the CPS in a well organized user friendly format would of been a must for all canadian health care providers. Unfortunately, this falls much too short of that with limited info on the drugs that are present and even that list is short.
I would of gladly switched to a Canadian source for my therapeutics information but now thanks to the free trial, Im very happy I didnt spend money. Ill stick with lexi-comp (even though its intended for the U.S.)
Hopefully they improve this in the future.
