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Therapeutic Advice and Information Service (TAIS)
Drug information line for health professionals
Telephone: 1300 138 677 (local call charge, calls from mobiles may cost more)
What is TAIS?
The Therapeutic Advice and Information Service (TAIS) is a medicines information line specifically for health professionals including doctors, pharmacists and nurses. It is funded by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) and staffed by specialist drug information pharmacists.
Services include:
- Information on new drugs, complementary medicines and medicines reported in the media.
- Information on newly emerging side effects.
- Advice on the clinical importance of potential drug interactions.
- Identification of foreign drugs and recommendation of therapeutic equivalents.
- Assessment of expected benefits and potential risks of medicines.
- Information on drugs in pregnancy and lactation.
How do I contact TAIS?
- Telephone 1300 138 677 Monday to Friday 9am-7pm Eastern Standard Time for the cost of a local call (calls from mobiles may cost more).
- Service Times by Zones
- Fill out the online enquiry form for non-urgent enquiries.
- Fax (03) 9459 4546.
Examples of TAIS complex drug enquiries
- Is there a clinically important drug interaction if glucosamine is taken by a patient stablised on warfarin?
- Should fenofibrate be continued if liver function tests are abnormal after commencing therapy?
- How clinically important is the interaction between amoxycillin and low-dose methotrexate?
- What dose of vitamin D is required to treat a proven deficiency? Can it be given by injection for a patient with poor oral absorption?
- I’ve heard about adverse cardiovascular effects with glitazones. Can you give me an update?
- Is there any evidence for the use of co-enzyme Q-10 for myalgia that occurs with bisphosphonates?
