Clinical Summary Tools
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Benefits of Clinical Summary Tools
1. 🎯 Provide clinically relevant summaries or overviews of health conditions & their treatments, so function as a one-stop shop for clinicians
2. 🕔 A few relevant results per search (in contrast to the very numerous results produced by database searches) and so save time
3. 🔧 Include other useful tools such as calculators, guidelines, patient information etc
- Offsite access: Onsite Registration
- App available: Clinical Apps
- Training resources: Videos | User Academy
- Other: Practice Changing Updates | What's New | References linked to PH Library - either full text or easy request
- Offsite access: CHC Registration
- App available: Clinical Apps
- Training resources: FAQs | Video
- Other: Includes comorbidities tool
- Offsite access: Athens Registration
- App available: Clinical Apps (choose ClinicalKey)
- Comments: Includes Key Points, Pitfalls, Urgent Actions
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DynaMed
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- While DynaMed isn't generally available, topics from this resource may be obtained by requesting them from the Library
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Guidelines
- Guidelines International Network (can limit to Australian on left)
- Guidelines ECRI
- Guidelines via Clinical Summary Tools (the four tools listed above all have sections for guidelines)
- Guidelines (Safer Care Victoria)
- Guidelines (Chief Psychiatrist, Victoria Health)
- Guidelines from RCH / RWH
- NICE Guidelines (UK)
- Guidelines on the management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug treatment settings (3rd ed, 2022)
- Suggest Guidlines to be placed here
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Peninsula Health Policies & Procedures on Prompt
- Offsite access: SharePoint Offsite Access
- Comments: Prompt on SharePoint home page should always be consulted first