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Evidence Based Healthcare and Downton Abbey
Continuity of care, the problem with expert opinion, and evidence-based medicine – sounds like your Epi-Bio class, right? Actually, these topics were all covered in the third season of Downton Abbey. Family members were divided on whether the very pregnant … Continue reading
Finding Answers to Clinical Questions: the 6 “S” Model
Where do most of you go when you need to find answers to clinical questions? We posed that question to a group of students recently, and heard a lot of ‘Google’s in the audience. Google is a great search engine, … Continue reading
Dynamed and UpToDate ranked 1 and 2 out of 10 evidence-based summary sources.
McMaster University faculty evaluated 10 evidence-based “Summary” resources and found that DynaMed and UpToDate “consistently ranked near the top of each category.” 1 Breadth of coverage, i.e., percentage of ICD-9 topics covered, ranged from highs of 83% (UpToDate) and 82% … Continue reading
DynaMed is the most current Clinical Point-of-Care database
An article published recently in BMJ1 identifies DynaMed as the most up-to-date clinical point-of-care database - by quite a margin. The reviewers chose five *summary type databases based on their breadth of coverage, editorial quality, and evidence based methodology and checked … Continue reading
First Consult iPhone app through MD Consult
All EVMS associates have access to the First Consult iPhone and iPad App through our site license to MD Consult. First Consult is an evidence-based clinical decision support reference that provides answers to treatment, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and prevention questions. … Continue reading