Project And Investigative Research (PAIR) Database
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
Library Webpages:
- Medicine research guide (https://researchguides.uic.edu/medicine)
- Clinical Tools
- Links to Essential Evidence Plus, DynaMed Plus, UpToDate, ePSS, Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Letter, Natural Medicines
- Clinical Tools
- Mobile medicine guide (http://researchguides.uic.edu/MobileMed)
- Full installation instructions
- Full list of UIC licensed resources
EBM Databases and Tools
Resource | Mobile Types | Content | Notes | Use for |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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:
- 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”).
- 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”)
- Then change the hyperlink TEXT to a appropriate label.
- 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”.
- (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.