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Introduction
See also Point of care decision-making tools - Overview
Clin-eguide is updated monthly and provides a point-of-care clinical decision support system that distills drug therapy, disease management, and laboratory results knowledge.
Facts & Comparisons resources
- Drug Facts & Comparisons
- Drug Identifier
- Drug Interaction Facts
- Herbal Interaction Facts
- Investigational Drugs
- Nonprescription Drug Therapy
- Review of Natural Products
EBM tools
- Evidence-based guidelines
- 5-minute Consult Database
- OvidSP Medline
- Nursing considerations for over 2000 diseases
- MedCalc 3000 clinical calculators
- The Formulary Monograph Service
- Trissel’s IV-Chek
- ToxFacts Toxicology Treatment Guidelines
This new product has over 900 topics covering 270 medical conditions. As a unique clinical decision support system designed to meet the needs of clinicians, Clin-guide provides structured diagnostic, management and treatment recommendations, referenced to the primary literature. Clin-eguide employs a rigorous EBM approach to content creation and maintenance, so that all treatment guidance is based on the best research evidence. A broad coverage of medical topics and disease states is provided, with particular emphasis on areas where significant controversy exists, practice variation is high, or standards of practice have not fully incorporated recent strong evidence.
Other features
The EBM approach is evident in Clin-eguide content by:
- Referencing all primary literature sources.
- Displaying strength of evidence grades next to recommendations.
- Including Number Needed to Treat (NNT) tables, where appropriate.
- Providing EBM Insights - alerts that highlight specific clinical issues.
References
- Cartwright J, de Sylva S, Glasgow M, Rivard R, Whiting J. Inaccessible information is useless information: addressing the knowledge gap. J Med Pract Manage. 2002 Jul-Aug;18(1):36-41.
- Trumble J, Anderson M, Caldwell M, et al. A systematic evaluation of evidence based medicine tools for Point-of-Care. Texas Health Science Libraries Consortium. In: Proceedings of the 34th SCC/MLA Annual Meeting; 2006 Oct 20–24. College Station, (TX).
- UMDNJ Physician's Core Toolkit
- Vine R, Shaughnessy R, Thuna M. EBM Tool-Picking Made Easy. Presented at Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2008.
- Farrell A. An evaluation of the five most used evidence based bedside information tools in Canadian health libraries. Evid Based Libr Inf Pract. 2008;3(2):3–17.
- Rasmussen L, Huser V, Starren JB. Implementation of Infobutton Functionality Using the HL7 Infobutton API: A Case Study with Clin-eguide.
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