Staying afloat in a sea of information: Point-of-care resources.
Physicians can use a variety of electronic resources at the point of care to help them make decisions about patient management. The authors address the need for these resources, characterize the elements of good resources, and compare several popular ones, ie, Clinical Evidence, Dynamed, Evidence Essentials, First Consult, Medscape, and UpToDate.
General Medicine Clinic Director, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, USA. reandrews@uchc.edu.
Rebecca
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Andrews
Assistant Dean, Education Informatics and Technology, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.|Director, Center for Technology Enhanced Knowledge and Instruction, and Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Neil
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Mehta
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Jack
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Maypole
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Stephen A
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Martin
D063005:Health Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D010820:Physicians; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems