What does Epocrates do when brand name drug products are removed from the market?
Often, many clinicians are unaware that a brand product has actually been off the market. This is because people continue to refer to the drug by the brand name and prescribers continue to order it that way. Pharmacists will generally just switch the order to the available generic without providing feedback to the prescriber that the brand name product is actually not available any longer, thus perpetuating the myth that the brand name product is still available. The Epocrates Rx database differs from that of many other compendia in that it is actually product-specific. Rather than providing a single generic monograph with a listing of several synonyms for different brand name products, we build a distinct monograph for each brand name product and the generic (if available), based on product-specific information, such as available formulations, dosing, indications, manufacturer, and pricing, which often differ between specific products containing the same active ingredient. When a bran
