MIMS Online is an important Australian online resource for pharmaceuticals information. It is the web version of the MIMS prescribing 
information for pharmaceuticals available in Australia.
It contains both abbreviated prescribing information, which is equivalent to the MIMS Bi-Monthly (a paper product), and full prescribing information, which is equivalent to the MIMS Annual (a paper product). It also contains product images, and consumer medicines information (MIMS CMI).
There is no limit on the number of CSU users who can access MIMS Online at the same time. It does have a relatively short timeout period, but you should be asked each time if you wish to continue.
MIMS Online has:
For assistance when using MIMS Online check out the MIMS Online Help pages.
Tip: Charles Sturt Library provides access to a number of other drug information resources. For information on these please see the Drug Resources page in this guide.
On the Simple Search screen, the Drug Interactions tab allows you to search for any interactions between drugs.
If you enter a drug name (remember it's probably best to use the generic name), then MIMS will list all the drugs that interact with it. The interacting drugs are in the column for Interacting Molecule and are listed using generic names (not brand names). The results list includes the Route of Administration (ROA) of each drug, and brief information about the adverse effect and the severity level. Note that the lower the severity level number, the more severe the interaction.
You can filter the results by Severity Level or by Documentation Level.
At the results list, you can then click on one and display all the information about the interaction:
The Drug Interactions tab provides two other ways to check for interactions between two or more drugs:
Enter the drug names together, separated by the pipe character. The "pipe" is above the backslash on your keyboard; OR
Use the Add/Remove Drugs feature, as follows:
Finally, here's a third way to find drug interactions.....
Working with results
As mentioned, the table of results gives brief information about the interaction between two drugs.
To get more detailed information, simply click on the interaction (i.e. click on that row in the table). The details screen includes a field for Probable Mechanism but also gives references which you might like to explore.
To find out if the articles listed in the references are accessible through CSU Library try copying and pasting the article title into Primo Search!
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