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Clinical Tools and Resources

BMJ Best Practice
Formerly BMJ Point of Care
Best Practice provides quick and intuitive access to authoritative information structured around the consultation process. Combined in a single source is the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice is provided by Clinical Evidence.
DynaMed
Trial
"The DynaMed evidence-based methodology is the foundation underlying all our content. An evidence-based tool must derive conclusions based on the best available evidence. This can only occur if the evidence is consistently and systematically identified, selected, summarized, synthesized, and interpreted. Conclusions must also be adjusted as new evidence is added to the ever-growing evidence ecosystem."
UpToDate
Trial
UpToDate is now open for free until the end of April . In order to receive free access, any new subscriber seeking access would simply need to follow this link UpToDate Guest Pass page. If a clinician had a license in the past and it is no longer valid they can simply reach out to our customer support team to extend access through May 31, 2020.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is the world’s first “clinical insight engine.” More than a traditional search engine, ClinicalKey is built from the ground up on Smart Content tagged from Elsevier’s proprietary EMMeT taxonomy"..."Whether you need point of care resources to improve patient outcomes or the largest library of Smart Content tagged resources available from a single source, ClinicalKey delivers."
Access Medicine
"AccessMedicine® from McGraw-Hill Medical is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 75 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device."
Nutrition Care Manual
"The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Care Manual® (NCM) is an Internet-based diet manual and professional practice manual for registered dietitian nutritionists; nutrition and dietetics technicians, registered; and allied health professionals."

Medscape Reference (eMedicine)
The largest and most current clinical knowledge base available freely to physicians and other healthcare professionals.
Opioid Manager (The National Pain Centre)
A point of care tool which distills onto one double-sided page, essential information and advice from the Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. To be used for prescribing opioids for chronic non-cancer pain.

Clinical Calculators

MedCalc 3000
"MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. "

MDCalc
A free repository of internet based medical calculators. Compiled by Graham Walker, MD, Emergency Physician at Kaiser San Francisco.

Drug Databases

RxTx (eCPS)
Contains the Canadian Pharmacists Association's (CPhA) publications Therapeutic Choices, the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, and Information for Patients, as well as, Lexi-Interact(Lexicomp's Comprehensive Interaction Analysis Program).
Online Drug Information Resource (Micromedex)
IBM Micromedex ® is used throughout the entire hospital by all clinicians – pharmacists, physicians and nurses. "IBM Micromedex® with Watson™ combines the artificial intelligence (AI) of IBM Watson with the evidence-based clinical decision support of IBM Micromedex®. It accelerates access to information by bypassing the keyword-based research process in favor of a Watson Assistant accepting natural language queries."
Natural Medicines
"The most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies."

Differential Diagnosis Resources

DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
This handbook is the preeminent guide to differential diagnosis for both clinicians and students learning psychiatric diagnosis.
Ferri's Differential Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to the Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms, Signs, and Clinical Disorders
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This handbook provides clinicians with a quick reference to the differential diagnosis, etiology, and classification of clinical disorders, signs, and symptoms.The purpose of this handbook is to provide the clinician with a quick reference to the differential diagnosis, etiology, and classification of clinical disorders, signs, and symptoms.

Diagnosaurus
Diagnosaurus 2.0 is a differential diagnosis (DDx) tool that allows you to search 1000+ differential diagnoses by symptoms, diseases, or organ systems. Diagnosaurus 2.0 is derived from McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Quick Answers content and was created by Roni F. Zeiger, M.D. This tool is available for consultation online and also as a download for your mobile device.

Clinical Tools and Resources: Clinical Tools @ UHN

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Clinical Tools and Resources

Clinical Calculators

Drug Databases

Differential Diagnosis Resources