Overview

Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey is a comprehensive drug reference that supports healthcare professionals in making sound medication decisions by providing the fastest access to the most current, accurate and clinically relevant drug information.

Best-in-class Drug Reference

The Power of Two
Benefit from the “power of two” of the industry’s top-rated references in one, enterprise-wide solution. Clinical Pharmacology is now powered by the technology of ClinicalKey, an intelligent clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge.

Trusted Leader
Clinical Pharmacology is accepted as a professional drug reference by every State Board of Pharmacy, and trusted by more than 2,000 hospitals, 35,000 retail pharmacies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, PBMs, health plans and academic institutions.

Superior Quality Content
Elsevier’s editors are PharmDs with expertise in their specific therapeutic areas. All clinical information is thoroughly researched and subject to a series of quality control checks. Our editorial team works through a stringent peer-review process with patient safety always at the core.

Hourly Access to Important Drug Safety Updates
Drug information changes every day. Sometimes those changes have major implications for patient and medication safety. That’s why Elsevier publishes clinical updates hourly, every day−including weekends and holidays.

Top Speed-to-Answer for Quick, Confident Decisions
Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey is built on an intelligent search engine with advanced technology that delivers answers as fast as clinicians need them.

All Inclusive, Enterprise-Wide Solution
No other drug reference provides frontline care teams with point-of-care answers faster than Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey. When more comprehensive or complex drug information is needed, you can rely on this all-inclusive solution across your organization for content on: IV compatibility, toxicology, pediatrics/neonatal, oncology, drug class overviews, custom reports, patient drug and disease education, and more.

What is Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey’s accessibility support?

Elsevier is committed to digital accessibility for all, regardless of ability or disability. We work continually to improve the accessibility and usability of all our products. Accessibility is an ideal and responsibility that we share with our community of customers and users. We strive to make Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey and its contents as accessible as possible.

Learn more on our Elsevier Accessibility Policy.

Elsevier endeavors to meet all guidelines and standards established by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA conformance, and Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act. These guidelines define how to make digital content more accessible to people with disabilities, and conformance to them improves usability for all users.

Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey makes continual improvements with the aim of achieving full conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA.

For a detailed review of how Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey conforms with WCAG 2.1 success criteria, please refer to our Voluntary Product Assessment Template (VPAT) document. This document was produced by the members of the Elsevier’s Digital Accessibility Team in 2023. The product has remediated some of the elements raised since, and will thus receive an updated VPAT. The team continues actively working on a remediation plan to further improve our product for everyone.

Elsevier sees accessibility as a priority and is striving to adhere to WCAG 2.1 AA standards via our product roadmaps. We promote awareness of accessibility principles among our employees, providing opportunities and resources for them to further develop digital accessibility expertise. We maintain a dedicated internal accessibility team to evaluate, support, and improve accessibility on our platforms.

Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey offers features that benefit everyone, including full-text search, browse and filter by content type. The user interface design is simple, flexible and consistent.

  • The user interface and all content are available in HTML, which is compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA and Apple’s VoiceOver.

  • Pages are well structured with headings, landmarks, and lists, which allow users of assistive technology to easily jump around pages and understand content. Main navigation links are consistent across pages.

  • Most controls and features are operable using keyboard only.

  • Navigation in the header includes a visible ‘Skip to…’ set of links to skip repetitive elements and jump to corresponding sections.

  • Pages strive to always provide logical tab order.

  • Pages are responsive, which provides an information display optimal for the user’s computer or mobile device screen size in a browser as well as mobile app.

  • Content pages are usable when style sheets are disabled.

  • Global navigation links are consistent across pages and enable users to quickly and easily understand the layout of the site.

  • Pages have unique and descriptive page titles, which help with orientation, tabbed browsing, and bookmarking.

  • User can bookmark or copy and paste links to specific sections within a book chapter and Drug Monographs.

  • Book chapters and monographs sections have navigation between them.

  • Whenever you scroll down the book content page, the Jump to Top button quickly navigates you to the beginning of the page.

  • All pages and content may be enlarged using standard browser controls.

  • Text and form elements has sufficient contrast adhere to WCAG requirements for color contrast, and our team dedicated significant effort to making text clearly legible across the site.

  • Links are visually distinguished from text, and most interactive elements also have obvious visual hover and focus states

Our team is dedicated to improving accessibility, and we’re continually working to address the following known issues:

  • We are further improving authorization and registration pages.

  • We are updating content interactions to update navigation and image interactions

  • Adding accessibility information to book content and online EPUB access.

If you have accessibility questions regarding Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey, or to report accessibility issues, please contact us via email accessibility@elsevier.com or our Support Hub’s contact form.