Library Announcements
New Resource
Epocrates
Rx Online.
The popular PDA drug reference is now available
online. ePocrates can check for drug interactions from among 50 drugs
and alternative/herbal medicines as well as view and print patient
instructions for medications. View pill pictures in the pill identifier
section. Search for codes and abbreviations. Look up renal and hepatic
dosing information. Identify off-label indications. A medical
calculator is included.
New eJournals
Academic Emergency
Medicine.
- available from OVID (1999-present available as full text)
Academic Medicine. - now available from OVID (2000-present available as full text)
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. - from Ingenta Select (1996 - 2004 available as full text).
Workshop
OVID Workshop - March 24, 2004, 9:00 - 12:00PM (Computer Lab). Use of the
OVID search interface to MEDLINE, AGELINE, and evidence based medicine
databases. Search strategies for OVID and how to use the linking
features in OVID to full text journals.
Featured Online Resource -- Medical Matrix
Click on image to go to site.
Medical Matrix
is a wonderful subscription resource
for finding reliable medical information on the web that has been around
for a long time. It is both a medical information search engine
and a directory of authoritative medical web sites. Medical information
sites are ranked for quality and usefulness by peer reviewers in each
specialty and given a score: 5 stars, 4 stars and so forth.
Medical Matrix is easy to find on the Library website. A link
is provided on the top navigation bar right under the Medical Library
title next to Google, the other search engine. It is a wonderful
resource for faculty and students preparing presentations as well as for
answering clinical and educational questions.
Click on image to go to site.
Browsing. From the main page you can browse by specialty or disease,
or browse topics like clinical practice, literature, education, healthcare and professionals,
medical computing, internet and technology, and the marketplace.
When you select a specialty like Surgery, sites are categorized into the following areas:
News, Full Text/MultiMedia, Journals, Textbooks, Major Sites / Home Pages, Procedures,
Practice Guidelines / FAQs, Cases, Images, Path./Clinical, CME, Patient Education, Directories,
Educational Materials, Classifieds, and Forums.
They are ranked from highest quality to lowest.
Diseases contain similar links and educational materials.
Forums. They are ranked from highest quality to lowest.
Diseases contain similar links and educational materials.
Click on image to go to site.
Searching. The advanced search lets you put in multiple
terms and search on either exact phrase, all words, or any words. You
can ask it to look for synonyms of search terms as well. It
also lets you pick the type of resource you are looking for such as
cases, educational materials, clinical practice guidelines, etc.
The results are ranked from highest quality to lowest quality and
contain links to all relevant parts of the site.
Below is an example of one of
the results of the search at right.
American Family
Physician Algorithms
Family
Medicine. A collection of full text articles and schematic
presentations of logical and cost effective steps for the management of
common disorders. These materials were previously published in the
American Family Physician journal. American Academy of Family
Physicians.
Family
Medicine. A collection of full text articles and schematic
presentations of logical and cost effective steps for the management of
common disorders. These materials were previously published in the
American Family Physician journal. American Academy of Family
Physicians.
[diagnostic work-up of dementia]
[Details...] Copyright © 2002,
Medical Matrix L.L.C.
Featured PDA Resource -- 3 Ways to Find Immunization Schedules on
the PDA
Two of our
PDA resources have immunization schedules for pediatrics and
adults. These are InfoRetriever 2004 and ePocrates. Here is
how to find them:
In InfoRetreiver 2004:
Under Practice Guidelines select Perinatal
and Infant. Then under Diagnosis and Treatment (?)
you will see Childhood Immunizations Schedule (ACIP) This is the
most thorough reference and contains adolescent immunizations as well.
The adult immunization schedule is under
Practice Guidelines, Infectious Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment.
If you have not yet downloaded and installed the new release of InfoRetriever, you should.
It is worth the time to get the increased speed and reliability.
You can now run other programs and InfoRetriever without having to worry about it
crashing your PDA.
In ePocrates Pro:
Under Tables, scroll down to Vaccinations,
Pediatric. There is also Vaccinations, Adult here
and a handy reference for Vaccinations, Travel, summarized
from the CDC Travel website. The Tables in ePocrates have all kinds
of useful information that many times is overlooked.
Another source which is free is Shots 2004. This
program can be downloaded for either the Palm or PocketPC from the
site
http://www.immunizationed.org/anypage.aspx?pagename=shotshome
This includes a pretty color graphic of the immunizations
which is interactive to give more information.
There are a number of other medical reference programs for the PDA.
A link to some these can be found on the
PDA Software page
of the FSU Virtual Medical Library.
