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Online Resources

Therapeutics

e-therapeutics - The online version of Therapeutics Choices

Evidence-Based On-call Database - Evidence Based Synopses of 38 on-call medical conditions

Journal Club - Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research

Agency for Health and Social care - Web-based portal enabling access to authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice information

Medscape - Offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals integrated medical information and educational tools

Bugs and Drugs - One of the most comprehensive antibiotic therapeutic handbooks - PDF available for download here

Pharmacology & Pathophysiology

Goodman and Gilman's pharmacological basis of therapeutics - Detailed information on medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of drugs

Katsung - Basic and clinical pharmacology

Kumar: Robin and Cotran pathologic basis for disease - General pathophysiology of diseases

Medicinal Chemistry

Drugbank - Includes information on chemical properties and protein targets

Drug Monographs

Natural Standard - Herbal/Natural health products

e-CPS (Available through e-therapeutics) - Online Version of the CPS

Martindale (Available through Medicines Complete) - Includes information on chemical structure and names in other countries

AHFS (Available through Medicines Complete) - Developed by American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, independent from Drug manufacturers

Drugbank - Includes information on chemical properties and protein targets

Drug Interaction Monographs

Stockley's Drug Interactions - Available through Medicines Complete

Lexicomp - Available through e-therapeutics

Guidelines

National Guideline Clearinghouse - Agency for Healthcare research and quality

BC Guidelines - Developed by the Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC), a joint committee of the BCMA and the Ministry of Health

Up-to-date - Clinical decision support system for clinicians by subscription

Canadian Medical Association - CMA guidelines

Miscellaneous

Peter Loewen's Resources - Contains materials from Dr. Loewen's lectures, talks, and some of his clinical tools

Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Provides current, evidence-based, practical and relevant information on rational drug therapy

Tools for Practice - Biweekly articles that summarize medical evidence on a clinical question with a focus on information that can modify your day to day practice

HLWIKI Canada - Open, free-to-use global encyclopedia with portals on health librarianship, social media and a range of information technology topics

HLWIKI Pharmacy - a very comprehensive list of pharmacy resources developed by Dean Giustini a librarian at UBC

UBC library Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Guide another list of resources available for pharmacists

Therapeutic Decision-Making - a guide to critically appraising all types of literature to help you make decisions for your patients

The NNT.com - quick summaries of evidence-based medicine

Evidence-Based and Shared-Informed Decision Making According to Homer - a 17 minute video on how to incorporate evidence and shared-informed decision making into clinical care

LCA/RDP Booklets - from health.gov.bc.ca

Drug Schedules - from bcpharmacists.org

Top 50 Medical Wikis

Other Website Recommendations

Favourite Apps

Primary Literature Search Engines

Tutorial for OvidSP

Tutorial for PubMed

Trip Database - a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice

Cochrane Library - full-text access, regularly updated systematic reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration. Includes completed systematic reviews and review protocols in development.

Pubmed-Medline - broadly covers biomedical literature. The indexing data for Medline comes from the US National Library of Medicine.

OvidSP-Embase - indexes biomedical literature, with strengths in pharmaceutical information and the European and Japanese literature

OvidSP-Medline - broadly covers biomedical literature. The indexing data for Medline comes from the US National Library of Medicine.

Medical/Pharmacy Apps

Primary Literature/EBM

MyStudies for the iPad and available on the web

This app takes the important data from landmark studies, and presents them in an easy to read format. This includes the absolute and relative numbers, NNT/NNH, and important baseline characteristics and demographics of each study. The results can be filtered by a 95% or a 99% confidence interval to only show those results that are statistically significant.

Journal Club for the iPhone

Journal Club for iPhone focuses on the top articles in internal medicine. Written by physicians, these article summaries are distilled into bite-size morsels that clinicians can digest quickly.

Drug Monographs

Micromedex for the iPhone, iPad and for the Android

Drug monographs and counselling points for all drugs and OTCs. Completely free, and an internet connection is not required, allowing for access at anytime from anywhere.

Epocrates available for the Android and the iPhone

Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic, and OTC drugs. Check for potentially harmful drug-drug interactions,select national and regional healthcare insurance formularies for patient coverage information, identify pills by imprint code and physical characteristics, perform dozens of calculations, such as BMI and GFR, and access medical news, research, and information. -FREE

Calculators

Lab Unit Converter for the iPhone

Quickly converts lab values between USA units ("conventional units") and SI units (Système International).

MedCalc for the iPhone

More than 300 formulas, scores, scales and classifications with support for US and SI units. Custom overlaid controls: no sliding in and out to input values. Search for equations by name or keywords and the option to make a customizable list of favorite equations.

Disease/Conditions References

Medscape for the iPhone, iPad, and Android

This app has prescribing & safety information for Rx drugs, OTCs, herbals and supplements, including a drug interaction checker. Also has comprehensive reviews on diseases, Conditions & Procedures (pathophysiology, epidemiology, differential diagnoses, workup, treatment, medication options, and more), and many medical calculators. -FREE

University of Maryland Medical Centre Medical Encyclopedia for the iPhone

Medically reviewed information on: Symptoms, Injury, Disease, Surgery, Nutrition, Special Topics, Poison, Tests, YouTube Videos. -FREE

Skyscape available for the Android, iPhone, and iPad

The free Skyscape app comes loaded with a valuable package of medical resources, including drug information, medical calculators and clinical information on over 850 topics. You can purchase any of more than 600 premium resources in 35 medical specialties and access all of them from within this app.

Dynamed for the iPhone/iPad.

DynaMed is a clinical reference database with more than 3,100 evidence-based clinical summaries updated daily and intended for use primarily at the point-of-care.

Guidelines

BC Guidelines for the iPhone

This application contains over 30 clinical practice guidelines in abridged format. The app is easily updated as more become available. Guidelines can be searched, sorted by topic, and include pictures, flow sheets, and other useful information. This application serves as a condensed, portable companion to the full clinical practice guidelines found at www.BCGuidelines.ca, where over 50 guidelines are available in a range of formats. -FREE

Medical Podcasts

Best Science (BS) Medicine podcast

Presented by James McCormack and Michael Allan with focus on trying to promote healthy skepticism and critical thinking of a variety of topics with humour and in a case-based approach.

Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms

Provides a concise review of the evaluation of a common symptom, causes, history and physical examination, and Red Flag findings. An emphasis on features that help in differential diagnosis and a systematic approach to testing are included.

Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Radio Podcast brings together the daily, one-minute Mayo Clinic health news updates covering a wide variety of topics that are broadcast on radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.

Ercast

A short focused discussion on the questions, quagmires and known unknowns faced everyday in the emergency department with perspectives from emergency physicians as well as other specialties. Ercast covers a single issue and tries to tease out all the relevant elements. It's for physicians and anyone interested in a bare bones look at emergency care.

POEM of the week

Podcast released each week delivering a five minute discussion about an important recent medical study reviewed by the POEMs editors.

JAMA

A monthly series of discussions of core issues in evidence-based medicine by leading practitioners in the field.

Lancet

Listen to The Lancet's podcasts for author interviews and expert discussions on clinical practice, evidence, and campaigns.

NEJM

Audio interviews of various experts by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Annals of internal medicine

Issue highlights and interviews from Annals of Internal Medicine.