EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE

Library Webpages:

EBM Databases and Tools

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
Cochrane collaboration, Center for reviews and Dissemination iOS Abstracts Access through library website Unbiased, high-quality synthesis of evidence
DynaMed Plus Isabel Web App: Android iOS Full Access through library website. Requires Internet connection Evidence-based point of care summaries and calculators. Isabel creates a list of differentials based on abnormal signs and symptoms; links out to DynaMed summaries
Essential Evidence Plus Web only. Optimized for mobile devices. Full Access through library website. IP range to log in and access mobile Point of care. Well organized evidence-based answers to clinical questions re: symptoms, diseases, treatment. Includes diagnostic test calculators and odds ratios
AHRQ ePSS Web App: Android iOS Full Access through Medicine Research Guide under Clinical Tools. Offline access Use to search/browse USPSTF to identify clinical preventive services appropriate for patients
GetTheDiagnosis.org Web Full Requires Internet connection. Shares information about sensitivity, specificity of history, physical exam, and diagnostic tests
The NNT Web Full Requires Internet connection. Quick summaries of Evidence Based Medicine

e-Textbooks, Resources and Journals

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
Access Medicine Mobile app App: Android iOS Full Access through Medicine Research Guide under Clinical Tools Quick Medical Dx & Rx, Dermatology, Differential Diagnosis Tool, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests.
Access Products
Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine
Web Full Access through library website links. Anesthesiology*, EM*, Peds*, Medicine, Surgery* Textbooks, Multimedia materials, and practice questions. *Some resources have limited simultaneous seats for use
Essential Evidence Plus Web only. Optimized for mobile devices. Full Access through library website. IP range to log in and access mobile Point of care. Well organized evidence-based answers to clinical questions re: symptoms, diseases, treatment. Includes diagnostic test calculators and odds ratios
UpToDate Anywhere Web App: Android iOS Full Access through library website. Requires Internet connection. Need to log in every 30 days on site. Point of care. Use to make diagnoses and understand disease states, patient education
National Comprehensive Cancer Network Web App: Android iOS Partial Have to register at site for access. Guidelines are free Use to search/browse to identify guidelines appropriate for patients with cancer
BrowZine Web App: Android iOS Full Access through library website links. Log in with NetID and Password for access to full-text articles. Requires Internet Connection. Use BrowZine to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from the UIC Library

Literature Search tools

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
TripPro Web Full Access through library website Smart, fast tool to find primary studies and synthesized research by using EBM filters
PubMed Clinical Queries (found under PubMed Tools) Web App: Android iOS Full Access through library website By using Clinical Queries, premade EBM filters are applied to focus search results on clinical question types like Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Clinical Prediction guidelines

Pharmacology Resources

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
Micromedex Web only/App purchase App is high level summary only. Through hospital portal. Student use only while on Hospital clinics Drug information, monographs
Clinical Pharmacology Web

App Android iOS

Full

Partial

Access through library website

Offline Access

By using Clinical Queries, premade EBM filters are applied to focus search results on clinical question types like Therapy, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Clinical Prediction guidelines
Medical Letter Web

App: Android, iOS

Partial

Partial

Access through library website

Requires Internet connection

Peer-reviewed biweekly medical journal providing evaluations of pharmaceutical drugs. Does not include drug interactions.
Natural Medicines Web Only Full Access through library website/pharmacy guide Drug information on dietary supplements, natural medicines and CAM therapies

Calculators

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
Calculate by QxMD App: Android, iOS Full Freely available tool. Requires Internet connection Clinical Calculator and Decision Support tool
MD+Calc Web App:
Android
iOS
Freely available tool Clinical Calculator and Decision Support tool

Immunization Resources

Resource Mobile Types Content Notes Use for
CDC Immunization App Web App:
Android
iOS
Full Requires Internet connection. Check versioning of resource to have the current year’s vaccine schedules and footnotes Access to immunization schedules
STFM Shots Immunization App: Android, iOS Full Requires Internet connection Easy-to-use, up-to-date vaccine information at the point of care with Shots

INSTRUCTIONS: In order to add a sidebar anchor:

  1. Duplicate the existing item, listed as a 1/6 text field. (Or create a 1/6 column and add a text field, modify the class so it’s exactly “additionalAnchor”).
  2. Modify the text field inside the 1/6 column. Inside there, modify the HYPERLINK so that it would go to a corresponding section with a “#” in front of it. (Example, we have a “chief” section on the page, then it would make sense to have the hyperlink go to “#chief”)
  3. Then change the hyperlink TEXT to a appropriate label.
  4. IMPORTANT: If not done already, go into that CONTAINER that corresponds to your anchor (i.e. Meet The Chiefs), and add an ID matching the anchor’s HYPERLINK WITHOUT the “#”, i.e. “chief”.
  5. (If using side bar widget box, then there’s a saved copy of a widget box COLUMN, grab it in the column library, it should 1/6 of a length of a column.)

NOTE: Order added to the sidebar is from last to first.