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  • 5 Minute Clinical Consult
      The 5-Minute Clinical Consult for PDAs is a structured clinical resource for handheld devices. It covers more than 1,000 medical and surgical conditions and is comprehensively indexed to help locate the desired information quickly. This is a fee-based product.
  • Clinical Evidence
      The handheld version of Clinical Evidence includes entries for hundreds of conditions. The level of detail varies from one condition to the next but in general, each entry includes background information, intervention summaries, and treatment options. This is a fee-based product.
  • EBM Calculator
      Use the Stats Calculator to determine the sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios for diagnostic tests; the absolute risk, absolute relative risk, and number needed to treat for prospective studies and randomized controlled trials; and odds ratios for case-control studies.
  • Epocrates
      One of the more popular handheld software applications in medicine, ePocrates offers several tools--some free, some for a fee. Among the free tools are a drug guide, psychiatry compendica, hypertension quick reference, and insulin dosing calculator.
  • Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide
      With the handheld Antibiotic Guide you can search by diagnosis, pathogen, or antibiotic. For conditions, you are provided with diagnostic criteria, treatment regimens, and literature references. Entries for pathogens include clinical relavance, sites of infection, and treatment regimens. Searching by antibiotic provides indications, dosing, adverse reactions and drug interaction information. This fee-based resource is available for all major handheld platforms from Skyscape.
  • Medical Mnemonics
      A good learning tool for medical students. This database of medical mnemonics allows you to browse by discipline, system, or body part or search by keyword.
  • POCKETConsult
      A handheld product from MD Consult. MD Consult Drug Updates, medical news, and calculators are among the resources available via POCKETConsult.