PharmGuides serves as a living database of curated evidence-based clinical guidelines recognized in academia, clinical, industry, and retail settings. The mission is to provide a free, centralized, and accessible resource for pharmacists, students, and other healthcare professionals to find guidelines and practice healthcare in its most updated standards.

With so many articles online today, of different sources and years, it has been difficult to find the most updated and accurate source. This website simply routes to the most updated guidelines backed by evidence-based medicine for healthcare providers to utilize in order to provide patients the most optimal care. It is intended for the practicing pharmacist in the United States, with guidelines focused on medication treatment and management. Medicine is an ever-changing science. As new research and clinical experience broaden our knowledge, changes in treatment and drug therapy are required. The creator of this work checked with resources believed to be reliable in their efforts to provide information that is complete and generally in accord with the standards accepted.

Users are an integrated part of quality control on guideline updates. When a link is reported to be out of date by a user, the website will be updated within the week. Quality control will also be performed on a monthly basis for any “dead” links.

How PharmGuides Started

My name is Diana, and I am a pharmacist in New York City. My first job after graduating pharmacy school in 2019 placed me directly in the frontlines of the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a time of uncertainty and constant change, and alongside that, misinformation spread quickly. Medical policies and doctors were blindly using inaccurate treatment regimens influenced by politics over clinical trials and data. It was difficult for practitioners to quickly find reliable, evidence-based guidance.

During lockdown, I started compiling the clinical guidelines we were using most often into one place. What began as a personal project turned into PharmGuides. I worked on it during lunch breaks and in my studio apartment over the course of six months before launching it in December 2020.

The goal was simple: make common clinical guidelines easy to access, so healthcare providers can quickly double check evidence-based recommendations when caring for patients.

I didn’t expect the site to still be in use 5 years later, serving 100k+ people around the world. With the rise of AI-generated misinformation and politics changing guidelines without data, it continues to serve a purpose. I still practice in emergency medicine today and have worked in both adult and pediatric ERs across a range of hospital settings. I’ve also had the opportunity to train dozens of pharmacists along the way.

My approach hasn’t changed: trust the data, but question how it was produced. Use the best available evidence, but never lose sight of the patient in front of you.

Email: diana.pharmguides@gmail.com

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This started as a passion project that I improve on in my free time. Even though the monthly site maintenance costs is low ($17/month), it does come out of my pocket. If PharmGuides has helped you and your patients, providing a donation will help continue its commitment into the future.

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