The Drug Use Policy Center serves as a resource for information about drugs and drug therapy to healthcare professionals. This service is responsible for:

• Providing clinicians information about drug pharmacology, dosing, adverse reactions, availability, compatibility and stability
• Researching drug topics using Medline, Micromedex, FDA-online and many other electronic information resources
• Preparing and circulating the periodicals, "Drug Bulletin" and "Prescription"
• Evaluating new drugs for possible addition to the Cedars-Sinai formulary and presenting these evaluations to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
• Working with the medical staff to develop evidence-based usage guidelines
• Maintaining the electronic drug formulary
• Staff development
• Precepting pharmacy students and residents
• Forecasting the cost of pharmaceuticals used by the Medical Center each year