Clinical Summary Tools
🎯 Provide clinically relevant summaries or overviews of health conditions & their treatments, so function as a one-stop shop for clinicians
🕔 A few relevant results per search (in contrast to the very numerous results produced by database searches) and so save time
🔧 Include other useful tools such as calculators, guidelines, patient information etc
🦘 Jump to: UpToDate | BMJ Best Practice | FirstConsult | DynaMed | Guidelines | PH Policies & Procedures on Prompt
- 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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- Provided by McMaster EvidenceAlerts
- Often seem to be able to use DynaMed freely without an account
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- However if access is restricted, you may need to Sign In or Register (top right) for a free account
- After signing in, scroll down the resulting page to see the DynaMed search box
- 💡 EvidenceAlerts themselves are a useful resource:
- "All articles from 125 premier clinical journals are pre-rated for quality by highly trained research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians"
- "Only the strongest studies and systematic reviews are selected for EvidenceAlerts; less than 1 in 10 published articles makes the grade"
- Available in multiple specialties, Most Read etc
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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