Evidence Based Medicine — To Go

I recently looked at Clinical Evidence for PDA from Unbound Medicine. It is a great evidence based medicine resource. Clinical Evidence’s major strengths are the evidence based content, the monthly updating and the structure.
According to the product web site, the BMJ Publishing Group “aims to cover common or important clinical conditions seen in primary and hospital care…The questions in Clinical Evidence concern the benefits and harms of preventative and therapeutic interventions, with emphasis on outcomes that matter to patients.”

The content is organized by topic area (child health, kidney disorders, etc.). Selecting a topic area brings you to a list of topics. Within Kidney Disorders, for example, there are three – acute renal failure, end stage renal disease and kidney stones. Tapping on the content brings you to the citation, where the currency is immediately visible. From there you can access key messages, background, intervention summary or specific questions. This structure gets you to the evidence or lack of it very quickly.
To request a link to the PDF of the complete topic online you check the “full topic online” box. After syncing, your browser opens to the web component. You login and link from your Library to the full topic. The term “evidence based medicine” is sometimes applied rather loosely, but not here – copious citations follow every topic. The Library is like the Archive in Unbound’s Centrals. Links to full topic PDFs, searches and citations, are stored there.
Monthly updating is one of the most appealing aspects of Clinical Evidence for PDA. Combined with the now familiar MEDLINE searching available on the Web, with both classic and clinical interfaces, it ensures you do not miss any important developments.
If evidence based medicine is important to you, this is a must have product!