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. 2024 Nov;30(11):1318–1326. doi: 10.18553/jmcp.2024.30.11.1318

Table 1.

Drug Compendia Characteristics

Characteristic Cerner Multum First Databank Gold Standard Medi-Span
Parent company of compendia Oracle Hearst Elsevier Wolters Kluwer
Is the compendia considered a pricing data source? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Clinical information included in the dataset
  • Clinical decision support

  • Drug-condition interactions

  • Drug-drug interactions

  • Drug-food interactions

  • Patient education

  • Referential text

  • Clinical decision support

  • Dosing

  • Drug-disease interactions

  • Drug interactions

  • Drug identification

  • Drug reference

  • Patient education

  • Clinical decision support

  • Drug identification

  • Drug reference

  • Patient education

  • Clinical decision support

  • Dosing

  • Drug-drug interactions

  • Patient education

  • Patient safety

  • Precautions

Database product(s) Cerner Multum includes prescription drugs, DTx, over-the-counter drug products, herbal products, and nutraceutical products MedKnowledge includes FDA-approved prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and limited collections of disposable or reusable medication devices commonly dispensed by pharmacies. Prizm: includes medical devices. Gold Standard Drug Database includes prescription drugs, over-the-counter drug products, herbal products, vitamin and nutritional products, medical devices, and diagnostic kits Medi-Span includes prescription and over-the-counter drug product data, herbal products, vitamin and nutritional products, medical devices, and diagnostic tests and kits
Inclusion of DTx in the compendia Yes Yes: Prizm Yes Yes
Inclusion of PDTs in the compendia Yes Yes: MedKnowledge and Prizm Yes Yes

DTx = digital therapeutics; FDA = US Food and Drug Administration; PDT = prescription digital therapeutics.

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