Health Care Resources for Palm™ OS PDAs
Bioterrorism | Books, Medical | Books, Non-Medical | Calculators | Diagnosis | Document Readers | Drug Databases | EBM Calculators and Apps | ECG | Medline | Patient Databases | Pediatrics
| Practice Guidelines | Toxicology | USMLE
Review | Utilities | Web Clipping | Wireless Software | Wireless Websites
Please do not consider the inclusion of links to PDA applications below
an endorsement of their accuracy or reliability.
$ indicates application NOT free. All others are free or websites that link free applications.
Bioterrorism
- 911™ Free Emergency Responder Resource (www.skyscape.com/EStore/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=714) - incorporates content from Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies (OCM/911), The Medical Letter, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) (wiser.nlm.nih.gov/index.html) from the National Library of Medicine. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression guidance.
Books, Medical
Books, Non-Medical
Calculators
Diagnosis
- mobileMicromedex Diagnosis Tool (mobilemicromedex.thomsonhc.com)
(Contact the Health Sciences Library at (816) 235-1875 or Sue Sykes Berry for username and password)
- Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests (www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_mobile_pocket_guide.jsp)
- Diagnosaurus (books.mcgraw-hill.com/medical/diagnosaurus/index.html)
- TIMI Risk Calculator (www.timi.org) - from the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infaction study where patients had a clear history of chest pain at rest--a simple prognostication scheme that enables a clinician to categorize a patient's risk of death and ischemic events at the time of initial evaluation.
- Pneumonia Severity Index (www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=43270)
- Glasgow Coma Scale (www.metaworks.com/products/medicalapplications.html)
- Medical Mnemonics for Palm OS (medicalmnemonics.com)
- Folstein (www.pocketpsych.com/Resources/dowloads.htm)
- Mini Mental Status Exam for Palm OS (www.pocketpsych.com/Resources/dowloads.htm)
- DSM (www.pocketpsych.com/Resources/dowloads.htm)
- $ APACHE II (www.metaworks.com/products/medicalapplications.html) Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II)--prognostic scoring in critically ill patients
Document Readers
Drug Databases
EBM Calculators and Applications
- EBM Calculator v1.1a (www.cebm.utoronto.ca/palm/ebmcalc) - assists with critical appraisal related to diagnostic tests, prospective studies, case control studies, randomized controlled trials, and odds ratios.
- EBM Tables (www.cebm.utoronto.ca/palm/nnt) - summaries of important studies including the number needed to treat, likelihood ratios, and sensitivity and specificity of a tests in a variety of specialties.
- Johns Hopkins EpiTool (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic/resources/epitool/) - handheld statistical calculator for epidemiology.
- ICU Calculator (www.freewarepalm.com/medical/icumath.shtml)--includes stats calculator.
- Students' Guide to the Medical Literature (denison.uchsc.edu/SG/PDA.html) - how to develop answerable questions, formulate a literature search, critically appraise articles, and incorporate findings into practice.
- PICOMaker (www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/pico) -- create and store queries in the PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) format for later reference--a great tool for evidence-based practice.
- $ InfoPoems InfoRetriever (www.infopoems.com/) -- includes access to abstracts from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, POEMs, evidence-based practice guideline summaries, calculators, and the 5 Minute Clinical Consult.
- $ Palm Stat (www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=88137719991228072710&prodID=2718)
ECG
Medline
- PubMed on Tap (mdot.nlm.nih.gov/proj/mdot/mdot.php)--for devices that can connect to the Internet wirelessly--application that you download and install to your handheld that searches PubMed and can save and sort results
- Medline for Handhelds (pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/) -- use this website to wirelessly connect to a text-based web version of PubMed
- MerckMedicus Medline Journal Abstracts (www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_mobile_medline_journals.jsp)
- MerckMedicus Medline Search (www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_mobile_search.jsp)
Patient Databases
Pediatrics
Practice Guidelines
- Guideline.gov
(www.guideline.gov/resources/pda.aspx) - list of guidelines for PDAs
from the National Guideline Clearinghouse
- American College
of Cardiology (www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/palm_downloadpc.htm)
- Perioperative
Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery
- Management of
Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
- Evaluation and
Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult
- Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG)
- Management of
Patients with Chronic Stable Angina
- Implantation
of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices
- Management of
Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Management of
Patients with Valvular Heart Disease
- Management of
Patients with Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial
Infarction
- American Heart Association
(www.apprisor.com/dlselect.cfm)
- Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
- American College of Chest
Physicians (accp.apprisor.com/dlselect.cfms)
- Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: Evidence-Based Guidelines; Quick Reference Guide
- Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer: ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines, Quick Reference Guide
- Evidence-Based Guidelines for Weaning and Discontinuing Ventilatory Support, Quick Reference Guide
- ACP/ACCP Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD Algorithm
- Evidence-Based Assessment of Diagnostic Tests for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Quick Reference Guide
- Managing Cough as a Defense Mechanism and as a Symptom, Quick Reference Guide
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Quick Reference Guide
- US Dept of Health and Human
Services AIDSInfo Guidelines
(http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/PDATools/Default.aspx?MenuItem=AIDSinfoTools)
- Adult & Adolescent
- Considerations for Antiretroviral
Therapy in Women
- Hydroxyurea
- Safety and Toxicity of
Individual Antiretroviral Agents in Pregnancy
- Pediatric
- Pediatric Antiretroviral
Drug Information
- Perinatal
- Safety and Toxicity of
Individual Antiretroviral Agents in Pregnancy
- Health-Care Worker Exposure
- Nonoccupational Exposure
Considerations
- Tuberculosis
- Opportunistic Infections
- STATCoder Guideline Applications
- STAT Cardiac Clearance™
(www.statcoder.com/cardiac1.htm) - guides clinicians through the complex
algorithms established by the American College of Cardiology/American
Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the American College
of Physicians for evaluating patients prior to noncardiac surgery.
- STAT Growth Charts™
(www.statcoder.com/growthcharts.htm) - automates the June 2000 revision
of the CDC Growth Charts.
- STAT Cholesterol™
(www.statcoder.com/cholesterol.htm) - guides clinicians through the new
ATP III cholesterol guidelines.
- GRACE™ACS Risk Model
Beta Version (www.statcoder.com/grace.htm) - guides clinicians through
the GRACE risk model for in-hospital death.
Toxicology
- National Library of Medicine's Review of PDA Applications in Toxicology and Environmental Health (sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/PDAReview/PDAHomePage.htm) -- links to free and for-fee applications and reviews
- WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) (wiser.nlm.nih.gov/index.html) from the National Library of Medicine. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression guidance.
USMLE Review
- $ Kaplan
Step 1 (kaplan.pdaverticals.com/pdaorder/-/411305722927) - Anatomy to
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