enhances its content and adds a new section on modifying drug therapy. Discover how to review and optimize your patients’ drug therapy, using a simple step-by-step approach.

This database presents all of Canada’s oral medications that cannot be cut or crushed and possible alternatives. It is updated on the first day of each month. You can access and print it for use in your professional activities .

The following documents (links) will help the health professional to determine which transdermal patches can be cut or modified. However, the context in which the patches will be used, should always be evaluated first. In a hospital setting, qualified personnel is available to perform the necessary manipulations, according to a well established protocol, and in case …

When a medication is administered by a different route than the one for which it has been approved, it is called a ”non official”, ”non approved”, ”Off Label” or alternative route of administration. Many examples come to mind, such as an oral tablet given rectally, ophtalmic drops given orally or a parenteral solution given orally.

Dr Peter Dvorak earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1996 at the University of Montreal, a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Pharmacy at Laval University in Quebec City in 2002, a CTH (Certificate in Travel Health) from the International Society of Travel Medicine in 2015 and a Doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) level from Université de Montréal in 2019. He has 27 years of experience in community pharmacy as a pharmacist employee, Chief pharmacist and pharmacy owner . He is the author of fifteen scientific articles in journals Quebec Pharmacie and Actualité Pharmaceutique and 3 Travel Health courses for pharmacists. For his contribution to the continuous education of his peers, he was awarded the ”Blue Pages” 1996 Quebec Pharmacy award, IMS HEALTH 2000 award and 2005 Quebec Pharmacie ”pharmaceutical care” award. For the past fifteen years, he is interested in the oral medications formulations and the possibility to modify them in order to facilitate administration to patients with swallowing difficulties . He works currently as a community pharmacist and a consultant-pharmacist specializing in Travel Health in the Montreal region.