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UC/UCLA subscription resources
- Essential Evidence Plus (formerly known as InfoPOEMS)
Essential Evidence Plus (EE+) includes the Essential Evidence Plus Updater, which will initially download the latest content for Essential Evidence Plus and continually check for updates. Compatible with both Palm OS and Pocket PC, Essential Evidence Plus can be searched or sent by email Monday through Friday. The database includes EBM Guidelines, Cochrane Database Abstracts, Selected Practice Guidelines, Decision Support Calculators, H&P Calculators, Diagnostic Test Calculators, Derm Expert, E/M Coding, and an ICD-9 lookup tool including the 1,000 most commonly needed codes. On the Essential Medicine Plus homepage, you can search the online database by selecting the Start Searching with EE+ Online - Access link, or you may download it by selecting the Download EE+ for PDA - Download link.
- Thomson Clinical Xpert™ (formerly known as mobileMICROMEDEX)
mobileMICROMEDEX provides evidence-based clinical information for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses at the point of care. Compatible with both Palm OS® and Pocket PCs, mobileMICROMEDEX is easy to use and provides answers to questions about drugs, alternative medicines, emergency conditions, and poisonings/toxic substances. Users’ PDAs are instantly updated every time they HotSync® (Palm) or ActiveSync® (Pocket PC) and new information is available.
Other resources relevant to the health/life sciences
- AHRQ Evidence Report Summaries
Download evidence-based summaries from the Evidence-based Practice Program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research - AHCPR). The summaries are created by the twelve Evidence-Based Practice Centers under contract to the AHRQ. To download the summaries, click on the MobiPocket icon to the left of the “AHRQ Evidence Report Summaries” title. This will allow you to download both the summaries and the MobiPocket software necessary to read them.
- ePocrates
An all-in-one, mobile guide to drugs, diseases, and diagnostics.
- MEDLINE Database on Tap (MDoT)
MEDLINE Database on Tap provides a way to search PubMed/MEDLINE, read abstracts from a set of 120 core clinical journals, and access the ClinicalTrials.gov database. To use MEDLINE Database on Tap, you need a PDA with Palm 4.0 OS or higher and a wireless Internet connection. This site also provides a Flash demo and the user manual in both Word and PDF formats.
- NCBI Bookshelf In collaboration with authors and publishers, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is adapting biomedical books for the Web. Some of the books available in the Bookshelf can be downloaded to a handheld device. To download, click on the MobiPocket icon found at the bottom of a book’s table of contents or click the Bookshelf’s Overview link in the left navigational column and then on Handheld computer resources.
UCLA PDA Information
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