Health Sciences Resources for PDAs Instructors: Paola Durando, Public Services Librarian & Gillian Griffith, Outreach Services Librarian June 15 th, 2005.

Health Sciences Resourcesfor PDAs

Instructors:

Paola Durando, Public Services Librarian

&

Gillian Griffith, Outreach Services Librarian

June 15th, 2005

PDAs in Healthcare

Patients Monitoring Patient Education

Clinicians Appointments Billing Prescriptions Information

Education Used in some medical schools

PDA Usage is Growing

“One third of Canadian physicians now use PDAs in clinical practice.”

Martin, S. 2003. More than half of MDs under age 35 now using PDAs. CMAJ; 169(9); 952.

Agenda

Drug lookup

Quick reference

Diagnostic calculators

Evidence-based resources

Journal citation retrieval

Current awareness

Software Sites

Drug Lookup Tools - CPS

PDA version of e-CPS is in development

Drug Lookup Tools – ePocrates Rx Drug Reference

Free Palm or Pocket PC

compatible 3,000 brand & generic

drugs Drug interaction

checker Regular updates

available

ePocrates Rx, cont’d

Search by Drug Search by Class

ePocrates Rx, cont’d

Drug Interactions Warning

ePocrates Rx, cont’d

Lookup options Insert your own annotations

Quick Reference – 5MCC

Griffith’s 5 Minute Clinical Consult Available as a plug ‘n play book on an

expansion card at Bracken Library No concerns about downloading or memory

space or illegal copying 3 day loan period

Use with the library’s PDA or your own May need to download MobiPocket Reader

(free app) for your own PDA

5MCC (cont’d)

Main Page Images

Quick Reference: PDA Books @ Bracken

Physician’s Desk ReferenceHarrison’s Manual of MedicineWashington Manual of Medical

TherapeuticsStedman’s Medical DictionaryMerck Manual

Quick Reference: Toronto Notes 2005 (abridged)

Need Adobe Acrobat’s Reader to view on PDA $128.50 includes PDA version (available at

Bracken’s Reserve Desk)

Quick Reference: NCBI Bookshelf

Free PDA versions of books for download

Three titles so far: HSTAT: Health Services/Technology

Assessment Text Inflammatory Atherosclerosis Medical Microbiology

Diagnostic Calculators: MedCalc(http://www.med-ia.ch/medcalc/tele.html)

Free; includes many common calculators

MedCalc, cont’d

Evidence-Based Resources: EBM Calculator

calculates statistics for RCTs as well as for diagnostic, prospective & case-control studies

freeware program for Palm & Pocket PC from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Mount

Sinai Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto

Evidence-Based Resources: MedRules Not for clinical use (out of date) Free; Palm OS Evidence-based clinical prediction tools based on

the medical literature

Evidence-Based Resources: InfoRetriever a “point of care” tool to aid in clinical decision-

making “Most comprehensive hand-held tool for

referencing evidence-based medical information.”*

Queen’s faculty and students have access to IR’s web and handheld-based platforms via the library’s paid subscription.

Palm OS or Pocket PC Note: Download to expansion memory card.

*Lewis, M. 2003, Evidence-Based Medicine Tools for your Palm-Top Computer. Family Practice Management, v.10(5);23.

InfoRetriever, cont’d

Searchable by system (e.g. circulatory/digestive), by disease or symptom

Search the following: (by any word) Griffith’s 5MCC Keyword Diagnosis Differential diagnosis Clinical rules & calculators Practice guidelines InfoPOEMS Photo gallery ICD-9 look-up E/M coding wizard

Search results are grouped into categories and assigned a level of evidence. For quick reference, content is tagged with unique icons 5MCC Practice guidelines General treatment Cost effectiveness Drug treatment Surgery, anesthesia, procedures History & physical Diagnostic tests Clinical decision rules Miscellaneous diagnosis Screening for disease Prognosis/natural history Practice admin/health systems

InfoRetriever, cont’d

Journal Citation Retrieval PubMed / Medline

Search PubMed either through your PDA’s web browser or direct using the National Library’s “MD on Tap”

Ovid

Current Awareness

Personalized e-content services or “channels” JournalToGo AvantGo

pdaMD BMC Research Medscape Mobile CollectiveMed.com PsycPORT.com

ePocrates’ DocAlert

JournalToGo (journaltogo.com)

Free and easy, product requires online registration Latest clinical abstracts and news from published and private

infobases Customized by specialty Clinical Rewards Program tests your clinical knowledge while

offering “points” Palm & Pocket PC

AvantGo (www.avantgo.com)

Free Large selection of health

“channels” targeted at consumers and/or healthcare professionals Choose your content Register & download the

software Sync your Palm/Pocket

PC Updated daily e.g. American Medical

News, Urotoday, pdaMD, BMC Research, PsycPORT.com

ePocrates’ DocAlert

Customized medical news service

alerts distributed upon hotsync

To read full text, click “yes” to receive an email after next sync

Register as a specialist and get targeted content in addition to general content

Downloading Software

Things to consider:

For Palm and/or Windows CE operating systems?

Free/shareware or commercial/proprietary?

PDA Software Reviews

Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine Software Recommendations best-known

pdaMD.com a commercial site but it includes

independent software reviews

Software Sites

www.avantgo.com

www.epocrates.com

www.handheldmed.com

www.healthypalmpilot.com

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

www.pdamd.com

www.skyscape.com

Announcement: Upcoming CME Course

“Palm Pilot Workshop for Physicians”3.5 hour session to be offered this fall

by FHS Continuing Medical EducationDeveloped by UBC’s Division of

Continuing Medical Education as a national initiative

Approved for 3.5 Mainpro-C credits

For more information…

http://library.queensu.ca/webmed/PDAs.htm Borrowing Bracken’s PDA & PDA books Recommended downloads for PDAs Staying Informed

Please contact us if you have additional questions:

Paola Durando: [email protected]

Gillian Griffith: [email protected]

Thank you!