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Handheld Resources

Updated December 2010

For Cone Health Employees

DynaMed on PDA 
DynaMed is available for Cone Health Employees' mobile devices, giving you access to information on the go. Ask the Library for a passcode. DynaMed is also available as an Iphone App.

New England Journal of Medicine Handheld
This is available with an ADL membersip. Please contact the library about obtaining this resource

Podcasts from Audio Digest
Download the files to your computer using any podcasting software, such as itunes. Listen to the audio files on your computer or load them on to your portable MP3 player and take them with you. If you are interested in downloading the available Podcasts contact the Medical Library to receive a username and password for the service.

Free Resources

EBM Calculator
From the University of Toronto's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. Calculates odds ratios, NNTs, likelihood ratios, and many other functions.

EBM Toolkit for the PDA
From Duke University Medical Center Library.
Includes documents about:

  • EBM Terminology

  • Well Built Clinical Question (article by Richardson)

  • How to evaluate various types of research studies

  • and more...

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Identify practice guidelines of interest and download them to the PDA. Requires a document reader.

NLM Mobile
Includes "MD On Tap" (formerly PubMed On Tap), software for searching MEDLINE from PDAs, and PubMed for handhelds," a website for searching MEDLINE with the web browser of any mobile device.

Nursing Resources

Nursing PDA Guide from Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University

Commercial Products

Clinical Evidence
Free trial available.

Evidence-Based Cardiology, Second Edition; Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care; and Evidence-Based Diagnosis
Books in PDA format.

InfoRetriever
InfoRetriever searches a full spectrum of evidence-based content and tools: all POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters) and Cochrane Systematic Review abstracts, more than 200 decision-support tools, more than 2,200 diagnostic calculators supporting selection and interpretation of diagnostic tests and the H & P, over 700 summaries of evidence-based practice guidelines. Plus, the full 5-Minute Clinical Consult, and more.

PIER PDA
or
http://skyscape.com/
From the American College of Physicians (ACP). Physician's Information and Education Resource (PIER) database an evidence-based decision support tool.

Lists of additional EBM resources for the PDA

EBM resources for the PDA
From the University of Connecticut Health Center Library

Evidence-Based Medicine Tools for your Palm-Top Computer
From the AAFP.

Evidence-Based Medicine PDA Resources
From the William H. Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Links to Handheld Computer Resources for Clinical Decision-Making
From Eric W. Vogel, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine