Bengaluru, March 20, 2016: Pocketable Clinical Pharmacology (POC) is a mobile knowledge base of clinical pharmacology, pharmaceutical medicine and clinical research-related interdisciplinary fields for pharmaceutical industry and clinical research professionals and aspirants, students of the aforementioned scientific fields.
The application is available currently for Apple devices running iOS, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Since the app supports iOS versions from 5.1.1 throughout the current iOS 9, even legacy devices such as iPhone 3, iPod Touch 3rd generation or iPad 1 can be utilized and revived as professional tools.
POC is conceived to be a significant source of information in an affordable package:
· About 5000 terms with semantic referencing contained in a volume equivalent to about 600 pages from clinical pharmacology, pharmaceutical medicine and related interdisciplinary fields
· Based upon hundreds of authorative regulatory sources and covers a broad selection of topics
Major features:
•Off-line operation – no internet access is required to utilize the knowledge base
•Dual reading mode:
◦Lexicon mode: browsing and searching the alphabetized list of entries
◦Textbook mode:
▪browsing and searching the list of entries, arranged in logical order
▪convenient sequential reading of entries, with gesture control
•Filtering the entries according to topic and region
•The knowledge base is represented as a semantic network – cross references are based on semantic relationships: hypernymy (superordinate terms), hyponymy (subordinate terms), synonymy, antonymy and complementarity
•Annotation and collaborative studying support via management and sharing of user-created bookmark lists with focused content. Bookmark list is the standard document type of the application, an ordered collection of titles from the knowledge base, or of custom note items
More than a dictionary, less than Wikipedia: POC is intended to fill in an eventual gap with depth and breadth, while staying accessible for casual users, to semantically organize and explain the overwhelming amount of professional terms related to clinical research, pharmaceutical medicine and clinical pharmacology.
POC doubles as a searchable and filterable lexicon of alphabetized titles, and as a novel, concept-based textbook, where the titles are in logical (thematic) order. The Pocketable Textbook Of Clinical Pharmacology is accessible from the main, titles screen, and main entry points to the chapters are supplied as a custom bookmark list. Here is a virtual table of contents of the concept-based textbook.
•Pharmacology / clinical pharmacology / pharmaceutical medicine: Basic concepts and context of subfields, personalized medicine, drug response and interactions
•Biopharmaceutics:Dispersions, liberation, bioavailability, drug targeting and delivery, in vitro / in vivo correlation
•Pharmacokinetics: Clinical and population pharmacokinetics, pharmacokinetic variability, biotranslocation, ADME, kinetics, drug accumulation, pharmacokinetic parameters, pharmacokinetic model, therapeutic drug monitoring, isomerism – chirality
•Pharmacodynamics: Pharmacological responsiveness, drug efficacy, dose-effect relationship, pharmacodynamic model
•Chronopharmacology: Biorhythm, chronokinetics, chronestesy, ultra-circa-infradian rhythm
•Modalities in medicine: Therapeutic modalities, prevention, complementary and alternative medicine
•Pharmacogenomics: Heredity, genomic biomarker, genomic data and samples coding
•Drug discovery and development: Drug discovery paradigms, combinatorial chemistry, structure-activity relationship, druggability, omics, lifecycle management
•Nonclinical (preclinical) development: Organotypic culture, allometry, toxicokinetics, nonclinical safety testing
•Clinical development: Codevelopment, drug development tools – biomarkers, evidence hierarchy, basics of clinical research, monitoring, stakeholders in clinical studies, protocol / amendment, milestones (stages) of clinical trials, investigational product, documentation, clinical data management, electronic record, controlled terminology, clinical trial registry, pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic / pharmacogenomic study, bridging study, exploratory and full development – first-in-human, starting dose, dose escalation, proof-of-concept, dose-response study, confirmatory study, randomized and pragmatic controlled trial, post-authorisation study, real-world data
•Design patterns in clinical research: Research types (true experiment, quasi-experiment, non-experiment), observational research, elements of research design (sampling, allocation, control group, intervention model, blinding, conventional and adaptive design, treatment effect, endpoint, superiority-equivalency-noninferiority, instrument)
•Pharmacoepidemiology: Basic concepts of epidemiology, pharmionics
•Pharmacoeconomics: Healthcare system, health insurance, health economic analysis, pharmaceutical pricing
•Medicinal product: Compounding, innovative medicines, equivalency criteria, drug substitution, formulary, OTC products, biologicals, advanced therapy medicinal product, paediatric medicines, herbal medicines, dosage form, drug product quality (CMC: Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls), drug dictionary
•Manufacturing of medicinal products: Production, process control, batch, lot, Scale-Up and Postapproval Changes (SUPAC), cell bank
•Medical device: Classification, performance of in vitro diagnostic devices / diagnostic tests, medical purpose software, listing, conformity assessment, clinical evaluation
•Dietary ingredient: Nutrient, functional food, claim, HACCP
•Pharmacovigilance: Adverse event, adverse device effect, Preventable Drug-Related Morbidity, adverse drug reaction, expectedness and seriousness of adverse reactions, toxicity, routine pharmacovigilance, expedited reporting, cumulative safety report, benefit-risk balance, risk management, safety signal, premarketing and postmarketing surveillance
•Analytical chemistry: Analytical procedure, validation, dangerous goods, chromatography, immunoassay, electrophoresis, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, chemical sensor
•Quality management: Quality, quality assurance, quality control – audit – inspection, quality adherence, quality risk management
•Biostatistics: Data, variable, descriptive statistics, probability distribution, inferential statistics, model, hypothesis testing, statistical error, validity, statistical analysis, analysis set
•Regulatory affairs: bioethics, fraud, hard law, soft law, GxP, regulatory authority, ethics committee, marketing authorization, expedited regulatory program, compassionate use
•Miscellaneous terms and abbreviations
•Supplements
◦Magistral presciption: latin terms and abbreviations used in pharmacography
◦Routes of administration
◦Dosage forms
The application is available in the App Store in two versions: free and full. Please test drive the free edition, and if you like it: skip an ephemeral meal, and enjoy the abiding intellectual experience of Pocketable Clinical Pharmacology Full Edition.
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
