National Library of Medicine

NLM is available everywhere! You can download access to NLM onto your mobile device by going to PubMED at
www.pubmed.gov

You can access the web version of NLM by going to
http://www.nlm.nih.gov

PubMed also offers other features for your PDA, including the PubMed search engine itself as well as MD on Tap. MD on Tap is software that searches and finds Medline citations. This can be downloaded from
http://mdot.nlm.nih.gov/proj/mdot/download.php

Medline is a great resource for patient information, since it give great easily understandable summaries of drugs and diseases.

This PubMed software allows you to find what you need in evidenced based medicine without using a computer and without needed other EBM software on your PDA. One downfall is that an internet connection is needed to be able to pull up and read the articles.

Diagnasaurus

Diagnasaurus can be found through Access Medicine (through our Hardin Library). This site offers symptom lists and possible diagnoses. This site offers differential "diagn"oses based upon sets of common symptoms. Although the site dose not contain treatment options, through Access Medicine the diseases are linked to other resources containing disease and treatment information.

ACP PIER

ACP PIER is one of the most well-known and best sources of evidence-based medicine. It is web based but a PDA version is downloadable to Palm systems only. It offers disease modules with graded recommendations based on the latest research. The PDA version is updated monthly. PIER offers the most important information with the best evidence on a wide variety of point of care subjects. Not only does PIER offer disease and drug information, but they have complementary and alternative information as well, and recommendations on disease prevention and screening. ACP PIER also has journal club information to keep you updated on the most important and newest discoveries.

DynaMed

­DynaMed, similar to other Evidence Based Resources, offers concise summaries of graded and reviewed information. This resource focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of many conditions. The information comes from over 500 journals and are carefully reviewed. Retrieving disease information in this manner is much faster than searching for articles on PubMed.

InfoRetriever/ InfoPOEM

InfoRetriever is a PDA and web based resource which provide evidence-based recommendations and useful information. It contains many tools and databases including Practice Guidelines, 5 Minute Clinical Consult, Clinical Calculators and infoPOEMS. These databases give levels of recommendation, references and are wonderfully concise. InfoPOEMS, found here, offer excellent summaries of research. A great way to stay up-to-date is to receive current InfoPOEMS daily via e-mail.