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InfoRetriever brings Evidence to PocketPC
- Mark H Ebell, David Slawson, Allen Shaughnessy, and Henry Barry (15 February 2002)
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MedMath
- duncan carradice (15 February 2002)
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Free, Clinically Useful Palm OS
- Gary N. Fox (16 February 2002)
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Palm Resources
- Finn D Nesbitt (16 February 2002)
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Exciting Palm Resources
- Serdar KULA (17 February 2002)
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Further on useful palm programs
- Oliver H Menzies (17 February 2002)
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Palm OS PDAs in medical
- Robert A Wilcox (18 February 2002)
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Antithrombotic therapy
- Lees C. Forsythe (19 February 2002)
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Pocket PC 2002
- David M Lewis (20 February 2002)
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Patient Organiser for PPC
- Tharshanan Sivayokan (22 February 2002)
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For the Cardiologist
- Leonardo E Saavedra M (25 February 2002)
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surgical resources for palm
- richard m lindley (27 February 2002)
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PDA resources
- Richard D James (6 March 2002)
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Etherdome - anaesthesia
- Mark W Davies (10 March 2002)
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The answer Page
- Miguel A. Valdez (12 March 2002)
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Free files about Evidence-based medicine for hand-held devices
- Walter H. Curioso (13 March 2002)
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HANDHELD RESOURCES
- RITESH SHETTY, NOTTINGHAM NG7 (22 March 2002)
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Antibiotic Guide from Johns Hopkins
- Dardo Enrique Ferrara, H. Kenneth Walker MD Professor of Medicine (25 March 2002)
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AvantGo channels for RemoteMedicine
- Ross Boardman (26 March 2002)
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Medics Travel - for lists of hospitals around the world
- Mark H Wilson (1 April 2002)
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Re: Pocket PC 2002
- Nicholas J Barrie, RH175BQ (19 April 2002)
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Re: Re: Pocket PC 2002
- Antony S Willman (21 April 2002)
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Re: Re: Pocket PC 2002
- Donald Vine (21 April 2002)
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Applications for Paediatrics and other Specialties
- Marc O. Dr. Tebruegge (22 April 2002)
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Merck Manual
- Mathew L Newton (27 April 2002)
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Mobile guidelines and evidence
- Kamil I Saitkoulov (6 May 2002)
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Medical Abbreviations for Handhelds
- Christian E Nordqvist (26 May 2002)
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Re epocrates.
- Ishak Nadeem, RG30 1HG (16 June 2002)
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handheld aids
- sandy j taylor (18 June 2002)
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Adobe Acrobat for Handhelds
- Paul A Gowers (19 June 2002)
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NCI Cancer Database for Handhelds
- David Semela (26 June 2002)
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Re: Adobe Acrobat for Handhelds
- M E Jan Wise (2 July 2002)
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Re: handheld aids
- Colin R Macfarlane, Eric Connor (5 July 2002)
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Handheld medical applications: the bare essentials
- Jose R Arribas, Federico Pulido. Javier Velasco (13 August 2002)
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Drug databases for handhelds
- emma m graham-clarke (2 October 2002)
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Paediatric resources for handhelds
- John Clarke, Andrea Talbot (8 October 2002)
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FREE DRUG REFERENCE FOR POCKET PC
- SIVA NAVANEETHAN (13 October 2002)
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Many Medical Resources
- Alistair P Bolt (14 October 2002)
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Why is NHS not recognising the importance of PDAs?
- Rajat Srivastava (6 December 2002)
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Oxford Handbooks
- Asif Sadiq (12 December 2002)
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New England Journal of Medicine
- Kamil Saitkoulov (16 January 2003)
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Isabel website - a useful resource for Paediatrics
- Dr. Marc O Tebruegge (1 February 2003)
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Medical related Freeware for PDAs
- Mohsin E Azam (18 March 2003)
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eBNF for PDA
- Andy M Jinks (8 April 2003)
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Any Pocket PC applications that r Free?
- Mike W (14 April 2003)
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OB Wheel
- Thabani Sibanda, Nokuthaba Sibanda (15 April 2003)
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ohcm for handhelds
- venkat palaniappan (4 May 2003)
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pdf etc viewer
- Chris D Hill (14 November 2003)
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Patient Information on Handheld devices
- J T George, Jyothis T. George and Kavitha S. Rozario (17 January 2004)
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Re: pdf etc viewer
- rajat srivastava (3 February 2004)
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Re: FREE DRUG REFERENCE FOR POCKET PC
- Jay Rivas Buenafe (5 February 2004)
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Re: Re: handheld aids
- Anna Beatriz Ramos (24 March 2004)
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Re: New England Journal of Medicine
- Anna Beatriz Ramos (24 March 2004)
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Re: Re: Re: handheld aids
- Stefan Kuetter (25 April 2004)
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BNF for Hand Held
- mourad habib (13 May 2004)
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Your journals in your hand
- Jayaprakash Jegadeesan (14 May 2004)
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Re: Re: Re: handheld aids
- Boyd Goldie (17 May 2004)
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RxFiles Drug Comparison Charts for PDA (Canada)
- Loren D. Regier (19 May 2004)
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Re: BNF for Hand Held
- Pankaj Dubey (22 May 2004)
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PALM programmes to use on Pocket PC
- Amjad Raja (17 September 2004)
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Clinical Medicine Consult for PDAs
- Neil L Harvey (30 December 2004)
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handheld resources
- M J Mathen (22 June 2005)
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Useful medical application for palm
- Raffaele Califano (9 October 2005)
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Re: handheld aids - BNF
- jenna f mcminn (12 October 2005)
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Website with many links to free PDA software in German
- Wolfgang P. Offenberger (22 May 2006)
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Smartphones as PDAs: definitely worth a look...
- Sachin S Kale (2 July 2007)
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Mark H Ebell, Associate Professor, Michigan State University 330 Snapfinger Drive, Athens GA 30605 United States, David Slawson, Allen Shaughnessy, and Henry Barry
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Dear Editor, In response to your request for information about resources for handheld computers, we would like to bring to your attention InfoRetriever. This is software, now in version 4.1 and updated three times a year, that brings the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews abstracts, over 1500 brief evidence-based summaries of key research articles, a database of diagnostic test data in a Bayesian calculator, over 80 clinical decision rules, 550 photos, 1100 disease/symptom summaries from Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult, summaries of selected evidence-based guidelines, and basic prescribing information on over 1200 drugs to the PocketPC. We also have versions for desktop computers and Web browsers. Interested clinicians can download and evalute the software for no charge at www.infopoems.com. Thank you, Mark Ebell MD, MS
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duncan carradice, Haematology Registrar Christchurch hospital PO Box 151 NZ
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Very simple to use, contains many "daily use" formulas and best of all it's free!!
Homepage: http://www.stanford.edu/~pmcheng/medmath/ Download from: |
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Gary N. Fox, Teaching faculty St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, OH 43608-2691
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Here are two links that may be of interest. These short reviews critically appraise some popular and useful free medical software programs, predominantly for the Palm OS. Infectious Disease Databases for Handheld Computers The Journal of Family Practice, FEBRUARY 2002, Vol. 51, No. 2 (p179- 180) http://www.jfponline.com/content/2002/02/jfp_0202_00172.asp and The Journal of Family Practice, SEPTEMBER 2001, Vol. 50, No. 9 (p807, 811-13). Freeware for the Palm Operating System Need to page down toward the end of the web page from the following link: http://www.jfponline.com/content/2001/09/jfp_0901_08060.asp |
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Finn D Nesbitt, Medical Student - Edinburgh
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I find the Palm device a very useful resource for quick reference. Speak to any US undergrad about Palm medical software and they'll be beaming programs to your palm from their's in seconds. I use: the five minute clinical consult - 5mcc.com (Aprox £40.)
I've tried various combos of software, but you have to weigh up usefulness with free memory. The above setup suite me fine. Its also possible to get cracked (free) copies of copyrighted medical software for palm devices just by typing in the name and "crack" to a search engine like google.com By the way, I didn't tell you that and of course I don't do it ;-) Have fun. |
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Serdar KULA, Pediatrician, Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology Gazi University Medical School,Department of Pediatric Cardiology, 06500, Besevler, ANKARA, TURKEY
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Dear Sir, There are many sites in the internet for Palm device. You can use “Palm +medical” keywords for searching in any search engine. Healthy Palmpilot (http://www.healthypalmpilot.com/) is most widely site for Palm devices. There are 715 resources available for download at this site. All resources were collected at 7 cathegories such as: Diagnosis (identification and classification of disease processes), Health and Fitness (lifestyle modifications and alternative medicine), Interventions (procedural and treatment protocols), Investigations (lab tests and other diagnostic tools), Record Tracking (databases for tracking health care information), Refrences (grab-bag of medical knowledge base), Research Tools (critical appraisal tools). You can search any keyword which interest you at this site for finding resources for your Palm. Handheldmed is another interesting web site that provides an impressive service for medical professionals. Handheldmed mobile channels (http://www.handheldmed.com/mobilecontent.php) are an innovative way for busy clinicians to stay on top of the ever changing body of medical literature using their handheld devices. This service includes abstracts from the most popular and highly regarded 28 medical journals. Palm Medical Image Aids (http://plaza.powersurfr.com/bhargava/palmdown.htm) contains medical image aids that can be used on the Palm Pilot with Tiny Viewer. You can freely download and try them for as long as you like. If you want freewares for your Palm you must visit FreewarePalm (http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/medical.shtml). This site is the most extensive archive of freeware applications found anywhere. Unfortunately, it has not any search functions. |
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Oliver H Menzies, House Surgeon Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand
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I also use quite a few of the programs already mentioned.
Ones I use in addition to the others are:
** PEPID (Palm, Windows CE, PC) Costs$
** AVANTGO CHANNEL (Palm, Windows CE)
-Clinical Evidence
-Online Lab Studies Guide (free)
** iSilo (Palm)(Costs about US$13)
- LyteMeister (free)
- Marik's Primer of Differential Diagnosis (free)
** American College of Cardiology Guidelines (Palm)(free) Guidelines can be dowloaded from the site: http://www.acc.org/clinical/statements.htm ** FIREVIEWER
** eMedicine (Windows CE, Palm) Cost$
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Robert A Wilcox, Medical officer & Medical Researcher Dept of Medical Biochemistry, Level 6, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia.
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Readers intewresrted in medical application of Palm OS PDAs may be wish to refer to our recent article published in the Christmas addition of the Medical Journal of Australia. Robert A Wilcox, Ralph R La Tella (2001) The personal digital assistant: a new medical instrument for the exchange of information at the clinical point of care. MJA 175: 659-662 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/175_12_171201/wilcox/wilcox.html Abstract Personal digital assistants can provide a portable, integrated platform for point-of-care clinical reference, patient management and data communication. Clinical reference programs allow the user to access information from the Internet and guidelines. Patient management programs allow doctors to access and store clinical information. Wireless technologies have potential for rapid exchange of clinical laboratory results and efficient "electronic patient handovers". Thus, these devices provide the potential for true continuity of care across the healthcare system. (no reprints available from author) -------------- Some Palm OS applications BMJ readers may find useful include: ePocrates [website]. http://www.epocrates.com/. STAT GrowthCharts [website].
http://statcode.hypermart.net/growthcharts.htm. Accessed
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Lees C. Forsythe, Clinical Assis. Prof. Med., U. of Missouri School of Med.- Kansas City Pul. Clinic, Truman Med. Center, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
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Antithrombotic therapy - a quick reference guide for clinicians. This is available as a "palm" download for free at the American College of Chest Physicians web site: chestnet.org site map clinical information consensus statements |
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David M Lewis, General Practitioner Watford WD24 7PH
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PDA version for BMJ is v welcome. Please do not leave out Pocket PC 2002 users (eg via Avantgo channel service [www.avantgo.com]. Clinical Evidence is available to me via this route and is a much appreciated [and useful] Notwithstanding resistance to many things Microsoft, the ARM processor etc is the way forward for PDAs, with Palm OS 5 going to based on this architecture. It is shortsighted not to provide useful tools for all PDA platforms. |
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Tharshanan Sivayokan, SHO Ninewells Hospital, DundeeDD1 9SY
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www.handheldmed.com provides a free to download patient management program for the pocket pc. It allows users to list patients under their care with relevant identifying information as well as details of investigations, blood results and prescriptions. The 'Todo' facility also provides an area for notes relating to each individual patient. There is also a facility to scribe ward round notes and print via infra red. Overall it is a useful tool with some limitations, but with its free price tag is a definate must try. |
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Leonardo E Saavedra M, Internist & Cardiology Resident ASCARDIO Barquisimeto, Venezuela
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In our coronary care unit we have found the TIMI ACS Risk Calculator a very useful tool in the management of patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes. It can aid you in risk stratification and tratment options according to the inicial TIMI Risk score of the patient. The program includes results from important clinical trials and the outcomes also according to the inicial point score of your patient(Tactics TIMI 18 / PRISM-Plus / ESSENCE). Treatment according to ACC/AHA guidelines can also be revised. It can be downloaded at the TIMI homepage(www.timi.org). It is desinged for Palm OS and it´s absolutly free. Other options: ATP III Cholesterol Management Guidelines for Palm OS available for free in the NHLBI page(www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm). The interactive guideline tool aids in the aplication of this guidelines(Framingham Cardiac Risk included). ACC/AHA guidelines for Valvular Heart Disease, Pacemaker Devices, Stable Angina, ACS(UA/NSETMI)and Acute Myocardial Infarction available free for Palm OS at www.acc.org/ Air Heart Guidelines and Air Heart Professional. Latest guidelines and trials. It can be included from AvantGo. For Palm OS and free. |
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richard m lindley, sho neonatal intensive care queens medical centre, nottingham
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In addition to the palm resources already listed: avantgo.com has a large number of other clinical journals available I find HandDBase (shareware, www.ddhsoftware.com) an easy to use customisable database for storing patient data and my MRCS surgical logbook; free downloads of customisable databases are also available (www.handbase.com/gallery). I personally find this easier to use than PatientKeeper and other patient tracking systems, which ofter contain far too much detail. Although I have not been able to find the BNF in a Palm based format (yet!) Epocrates (www.epocrates.com) is a useful, albeit American, alternative. It is also free. I have found QiD, a microbiology database, less useful. |
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Richard D James, GP Falmouth Health Centre, Trevaylor Rd, Falmouth, TR11 4ED
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There are a number of sites at Download.com; Try Richard James |
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Mark W Davies, Consultant Anaesthetist Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK L7 8XP
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I maintain a 'handheld friendly' website which highlights editorials and reviews of interest to anaesthetists. This is updated monthly and is available without charge. Access details can be obtained at www.etherdome.net |
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Miguel A. Valdez Guatemala, City. Guatemala
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The service The answer page is a site that posts everyday a question with its answer in the following fields: Anesthesiology Pain Management Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospitalist/Critical Care Neonatology Pediatrics It is reviewed by a medical staff from Harvard School of Medicine. |
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Walter H. Curioso, M.D. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Apartado 4314, Lima-100, Peru.
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To the editor: There are many useful resources for Handheld devices available on the Internet, and many for free. One of my favorites are the EBM Tables developed by the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, site funded by the Mount Sinai Hospital (1). I recently created a non-profit web-page about Evidence-based medicine for hand-held devices (primarily in Spanish), the URL is: http://www.enlacesmedicos.com/palm.htm. The objective of the web-page is to included a list of selected articles analyzed using evidence-based medicine (EBM) in .txt and .mpa format files for hand-held devices. Each file contains a brief analysis of each article (NNT, for example) including the Medline link. Also we included the author who sent the file and we provided useful links about EBM for hand-held devices. We encourage readers interesting in EBM to send us articles that they would like added to the web-page. Walter H. Curioso, M.D. Reference 1.- NNT Tables. Mount Sinai Hospital. University Health Network, Department of Medicine. http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/palm/nnt/ |
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RITESH SHETTY, SHO A&E QMC QUEENS MEDICAL CENTRE, NOTTINGHAM NG7
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I bought the compaq IPAQ with Pocket PC 2002 upgrade. I have downloaded some really good quick refrence software. The best of these being Pedisuite from medicalwizards.com and 5m Emergency Medicine manual and the Washington manual from www.handango.com. These are extremely fast and useful software with search functions so one can just type in a single word and it takes you to a list of topics concerned. Better than carrying a text book around as the IPAQ has lots of other features. All these are available as 30 day trial (pedisuite) or first 15 uses free after which you have to buy these on the net. I find them worth the money and downloading is easy just click the OS you want to use it on and click download , thats it r shetty |
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Dardo Enrique Ferrara, Emory University School of Medicine 30303, H. Kenneth Walker MD Professor of Medicine
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Those physicians used to working with John Bartlett's pocket book of infectious disease therapy,would find the followind resource very useful: The Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic Guide handheld version: (information comes directly from the web page) The Johns Hopkins POC-IT (Point of Care Information Technology) Antibiotic (ABX) Guide is a handheld-ready adaptation of the online ABX Guide. It is optimized for use at the point of care and for each handheld device. We offer the ABX POC-IT Guide on most handheld platforms. The Palm, PocketPC and RIM versions differ slightly to optimize their individual feature set and operating system but each contain the most important information in the ABX Guide. Important features to be considered: Free
Web site: http://hopkinsabxguide.org/download_center/download_center.cfm |
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Ross Boardman, Consultant Staffordshire, ST6
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There is a list of channels relevant to remote, offshore and prehospital medicine at www.remotemedics.co.uk Go to the resources section and there is a link to the AvantGo content. |
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Mark H Wilson, A&E Middle Grade Homerton Hospital
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Medics Travel is a website that lists thousands of hospitals, NGOs, charities and registries. It can be selected as a customised channel with Avantgo and provide your PDA with an uptodate directory of world hospitals and medical schools. www.medicstravel.co.uk |
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Nicholas J Barrie, GP Cuckfield medical practice, RH175BQ
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I too use pocket PC 2002 on an Ipag to read journals off line via avantgo. I like to try to read the BMJ but more often than not I have to resort to paper as the channel is blocked due to "too frequent requests". Clinical evidence works well so please, BMJ, add the journal to avantgo |
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Antony S Willman, Army GP Tidworth SP9 7EP
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I agree the Pocket PC2002 OS is the way forward. Two useful programmes, essentially reader programmes may well be useful. Pocket Acrobat: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html and Pocket Microsoft Reader: http://www.microsoft.com/reader/pocketpc.asp With Acrobat, I can download pdf files, usually into a storage card to read at my leisure (usually archives from BMJ or Lancet). With Reader, there is a growing library of books & it cannot be long before programmes such as Mentor plus as well as electronic textbooks are available. |
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Donald Vine, KUMC-W KUMC-W 1010 N Kansas Wichita KS 67214
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Two issues: Pocket PC for viewing medical journals. Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer has a command to fit a page to the screen. Unfortunately, there is no command to wrap all text to the screen. So publications that format their articles into a cell within an invisible table (Lancet, some Scientific American and many others) lead to the unfortunate situation of having to read the material by scrolling side -to-side as well as up-and-down. Very unsatisfactory and without an alternative browser that I know of. AvantGo. The lockout due to too many hits seems to arise from the fact that AvantGo generates a large number of hits, as though there was an attack on BMJ's web site. AvantGo does offer a solution. Date limited caching. This is described at http://avantgo.com/doc/developer/channels/creating/caching/caching.html. As I understand the process, AvantGo's servers can be instructed to renew requested material no more often than specified in an HTML header provided by the requested server. Since published medical information posted at BMJ's website becomes esentially static, BMJ should be able to take advantage of AvantGo's caching policy to markedly reduce the hits while still providing handheld access to their information. |
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Marc O. Dr. Tebruegge, Senior Senior House Officer Paediatrics Maidstone NHS Trust, Kent ME20 7NJ
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I have been using a Windows operated HP jornada for about 4 months now. It has become invaluable for my work - especially in view of the fact that paediatric doses are calculated according to weight. Currently most Paediatric departments in the U.K. use the latest drug -guidelines which have been published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Another popular source is the Guy's formulary. Unfortunately both are not available for PDAs. The best alternative for PDAs I have come across so far is 'PediatricDrugs'. It is an American programme which lists indications, dosage, availability (in U.S.), contraindications, precautions, adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, parent/patient education and treatment of overdoses for several hundred drugs used in Paediatrics. I have found the programme very useful, but there are some restrictions to it due to the fact that it was primarily written for the American market. Some of the doses are quite different from those of the RCPCH guidelines and most vaccinations listed are not available in the U.K. I would also like to draw attention to the fact that the PDA version of the Harriet Lane Handbook of Paediatrics has been released in January 2002. I am sure that many Paediatric SHO's and Registrars have found the handbook a useful source of information and that the programme will prove to be equally useful. Both programmes can be purchased and downloaded from www.handango.com (both around 50$). Handango offers a wide range of medical applications (currently 159) covering most medical and surgical subspecialties. Applications are either Windows or Palm OS based. The advantage of this site is that many applications can be downloaded as a trial version - and then later purchased. |
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Mathew L Newton, Clinical Assistant Stepping Hill Hospital
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Available for download from Handheldmed, text version only, costs about $75. Easy to use, though the initial download was difficult because they ask for a US social security number - I just made one up once I realised what it was that they were after. The manual works well on an Ipaq, with index and search facility. A very good pocket reference - remember to try american spellings when searching. |
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Kamil I Saitkoulov, PhD student Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Moscow University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899
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Evidence-based medicine guidelines is a collection of guidelines for primary physician covering diagnosis and treatment of about 1000 diseases and syndromes. More information is available at http://www.ebm- guidelines.com/mobile.html and www.lumisoft.net. Available for all major mobile platforms (Palm OS, Pocket PC and Symbian). Evidence-based medicine guidelines is a commercial software designed primarily for doctors as well as for students and other health care professionals. |
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Christian E Nordqvist, CEO Pharma Lexicon Ltd, 83 Filsham Road, St. Leonards, E Sussex TN380PE, UK
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Download the world's largest database of medical, pharma, biotech & agrochem abbreviations to your Palm Pilot or Pocket PC. Over 46,000 entries! Created through contributions from hundreds of people and organisations the world over, it's a must for doctors, pharmacists, scientists, healthcare professionals, students and academics. The Bundle package (option 2) allows you to add your own abbreviations into the programme and lookup, copy and paste abbreviations from one programme to another. http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/index.php?language=&page=palmpilot |
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Ishak Nadeem, GP principal Grovelands medical centre, RG30 1HG
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Dear Sir I note that one of your responders has already mentiones Epocrates for the handhelds. I use it on my home visits to refer for medication interactions and similar problems. My only comment is, as it is an American programme it would be nice if the pharmaceutical industry or the BNF do something similar. I hope this message gets across to the people concerned. Another resource is PDA Md which is another american website. With regards. Ishak Nadeem |
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sandy j taylor, gp nottingham NG7 5HY
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i would love the BNF on my hand held. |
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Paul A Gowers, Director Wrest Park Silsoe MK45 4HS
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Adobe now produces Acrobat Reader for the PALM and Windows handhelds users can produce their own reports as .pdf files and then make them available for their handhelds. I have done this with the Cochrane Evidence Based Medicine abstracts |
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David Semela, Resident Internal Medicine University Hospital of Berne, 3010 Berne, Switzerland
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Dear Editor, I would like to recommend a free and very useful handheld version of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer database. It contains regularly updated information for health professionals on many types of cancer including staging, treatment guidelines, recent studies and complementary medicine. It was rearranged and converted into iSilo Doc format by Johnson Chong and can be found at Palmgear http://www.palmgear.com by searching “cancer”. It uses 4.1 MB of RAM and can be installed on an external storage device (iSilo version 3.0). David Semela |
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M E Jan Wise, SpR liaison Psychiatry Hammersmith Hospital, London W12
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If the DoH website is accfessec all their guidelines and circulars are in .pdf format and can be downloaded do a palm OS system via the adobe acrobat for palm OS tool that can be downloaded from the adobe.com website. |
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Colin R Macfarlane, Assistant Editor British National Formulary, 1 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7JN, Eric Connor
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We are very aware of the surge of interest in accessing information via handheld devices and receive many enquiries about the availability of a PDA version of the BNF. A tremendous amount of work goes into ensuring that the BNF contains sufficient information for healthcare professionals to use medicines safely and rationally. In order for this information to be available and appropriately presented to the user, the product has to be seen as a cohesive whole that includes extensive prescribing notes, rather than a simple database of drugs. We have developed a data structure that will support a PDA version of the BNF and are currently evaluating prototype implementations for both Palm and Pocket PC operating systems. We would like to provide a version of the BNF that is suitable for both platforms but at this stage it may be more efficient to focus our development efforts on a single operating system. This leaves us with a number of decisions still to make about choice of operating system and about interface design. Both narrative text and drug data must be easily accessible. Development of a PDA version of the BNF is taking time because there are dependencies between this project and other work on BNF editorial systems. We need to find robust, extensible solutions to a number of outstanding issues and to ensure that these solutions meet our stringent quality criteria. However, we hope to have a prototype PDA version of the BNF available for testing and review by the end of this year, with a full product scheduled for Spring 2003. Colin Macfarlane
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Jose R Arribas, Attending physician HIV Unit HIV Unit Hospital La Paz. 28046. Madrid. Spain, Federico Pulido. Javier Velasco
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If you are thinking about using medical applications for handhelds you should start with these:
1) Epocrates: drug reference application. Very comprehensive. Continuously updated. Free. Only available for palm devices. Very good drug interactions menu. Appropriate for everybody: senior physicians, residents and medical students. Can be downloaded from http://www.epocrates.com/ 2) Medcalc: Medical calculator. 73 formulas commonly used in internal medicine. Free. Only available for palm devices. Appropriate for everybody: senior physicians, residents and medical students. Can be downloaded from http://medcalc.med-ia.net/desc.html 3) Antibiotic guide (Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases Division): Antibiotic reference guide. Three main sections: Diagnosis, pathogen and antibiotic. Frequently updated although still incomplete. Free. Available for palm and pocketPC devices. Appropriate for everybody: senior physicians, residents and medical students. At http://www.palmedico.com you will be able to find other critical appraisals of medical applications for handheld devices. Currently the site is only in spanish. Jose R Arribas
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emma m graham-clarke, Directorate Pharmacist City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust , B45 8PY
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2 other databases that may be of interest (both American, hence based on availablity in the States). 1) Lexi-comp.com - a far more comprehensive database than ePocrates, but costs $75.00. Will link in to 5 minute consult series (but I haven't tried that) 2) kingguide.com - a database of drug compatibilities, very useful as a quick reference, but probably needs backing up with a full version for the complex stability issues. I'm delighted to hear that the BNF is likely to be launched in PDA format. |
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John Clarke, Librarian Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, Andrea Talbot
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We have compiled a select list of useful resources for handhelds which is available at http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/library/noframes/pdas.htm Further suggestions are welcome! |
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SIVA NAVANEETHAN, SHO A&E West Wales General Hospital,SA31 2AL
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I think this is the firsr free drug formulary released for Pocket PC(Windows CE)But it is a beta version , will be commercially avialable from December.Unfortunately it includes only American drugs.(Well, BNF is expected to release it's version soon) Named as Tarascon Pharmacopoiea,Published by USBMIS.I think this software is downloadable free from www.usbmis.com for a short time,needs around 4mb space. |
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Alistair P Bolt, Medicines Information Pharmacist Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UY
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There are lots of medical resources for all varieties of PDA on http://www.memoware.com/?screen=search_results&DirectSearch=Y&p=category^!Medicine~! The quality of some is doubtful, but many of the files are extremely good. Big disadvantage is that most of them are un-referenced. Use some with caution. |
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Rajat Srivastava, SHO Paediatrics James Paget Hospital,Norfolk,NR31 6LA
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I am a paediatrician in training and have been using a Palm PDA for the past 6 months.Frankly, i cant imagine how i was managing without it before! I have downloaded 2 textbooks of paediatrics for the palm.I get regular updates about journal articles from "journal to go" and i have downloaded numerous free softwares to calculate body mass index,fluid therapy protocols and drug bases which are a real help,especially when there is no book around!I have even entered all my rota and teaching schedule which i get reminded about by an alarm!!! The consultants i am working with at present are trying to provide all the SHOs with PDAs which are loaded with the hospital guidelines/protocols and these can be passed on to the next batch of SHOs every 6 months.I think NHS should be looking to provide all the PRHOs and SHOs ( for a start)with PDAs with sufficient programmes loaded to make life a bit easier and oncalls much smoother!!! If i have to recommend one site to paediatricians in training , it would be www.pedsonhand.com Competing interests: None declared |
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Asif Sadiq, SHO Orthopaedics Sandwel |General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich, B71 4HJ
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I'm very glad to see the eventual release of The Oxford Handbook Of Clinical Medicine and The Oxford Handbook Of Clinical Specialties in PDA format. I'm sure almost every clinician has carried one or more of these handbooks in the deep pockets of their white coat at some stage during their career. It's great to see these texts become so much more pocketable. And at last a challenge to the widespread American based texts on the market. The ability to search and cross reference information within the books makes them quite a powerful resource in your pocket. I am using a Palm M505 with the reader application (Mobipocket) on my handheld and the actual textbook data on a SD expansion card. The e-books are available at www.franklin.com All I need now is a copy of the BNF that works in much the same way. Help anyone? Competing interests: None declared |
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Kamil Saitkoulov, Deputy Director, PhD student (Moscow Univ) Geotar-Med Publishing Company, Malaya Pirogovskaya, 1a Moscow 119828 Russia
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New England Journal of Medicine has been recently made available for subscribers both for Palm and Pocket PC platforms. Full text in prc format can be read with standard readers such as ISilo or Aportis Doc. That is a very nice feature. User can now read through NEJM articles wherever he/she likes. It seams however that tables are figures are unavailable. Competing interests: None declared |
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Dr. Marc O Tebruegge, Senior House Officer Paediatric Department, St. Mary's Hospital London
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Isabel is registered charity organisation, which has been running for a few years by now. The website (isabel.org.uk) offers a number of useful features in the field of Paediatrics, which can now also be accessed via PDAs with internet capability on isabel.org.uk/pda. Access via this address adjusts the format of the site so it can be read and used more easily on a PDA. The site's main feature is a diagnostic tool. The incorporated programm produces a list of differential diagnosis based on clinical features and symptoms, which is particularly useful for unusual cases encountered in clinical practice. This feature also offers more detailed information about the respective differential diagnosis and direct access to the digitalised version of the Nelson&Behrman "Textbook of Pediatrics". Further useful features are: Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) guidelines, clinical algorhythms, experience section, MRCPCH exam teaching and an extensive image library. The site can be accessed by all health professionals after a brief registration - the use is free of charge. Competing interests: None declared |
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Mohsin E Azam, Research Medical Officer The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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I am using a Handspring Visor. I have installed a few applications related to medicine on my machine e.g. - ePocrates Rx from www.epocrates.com (which i find very useful during clinics) - MedCalc from http://medcalc.med-ia.net I have come across a resonable collection of Medical Related Software at the FreeWare Palm Website (http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/). This site contains a list divided into catagories like Calculators, Database, Diet, Fitness, Refrences and Utilities. A brief description is provided for each software along with a download link and a link to the parent website. Like the name says all the software on the site is for free. I am sure everyone can find something useful there. My personal favourite is Medical Eponyms by Andrew J. Yee, M.D. It contains a list of over 1,375 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions. There is a Standalone version for the Palm OS and it is also available in formats like Jfile and Tomeraider for Palm OS and Pocket PC. It can be quite useful for Medical Students as well as Doctors. Medical Eponyms can be downloaded free of cost either from Freeware Palm Website - http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/eponyms.shtml or from the Author's own Website - http://eponyms.net/eponyms.htm Competing interests: None declared |
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Andy M Jinks, SHO in Critical Care City Hospital, Birmingham
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I recently Emailed the Pharmaceutical Press about the possibility of obtaining the BNF for PDA. Their response was as follows: "BNF for PDAs A version of the BNF for PDAs will shortly be available. It will contain the complete text of the BNF including the appendixes. *Navigation will be possible throughout the entire text of the BNF using the familiar hierarchical structure. *Searching will be available by preparation name and drug name. *The index will be both browseable and searchable. Trials will commence shortly using BNF 45 and it is anticipated that versions for both the Palm and Pocket PC operating systems will be available for BNF 46 in September 2003. The Palm® trial will focus on a version of the BNF stored on a Secure Digital (SD) card. The Pocket PC trial will focus on wireless delivery of BNF content directly from the BNF website (http://BNF.org) or from the intranet version of the BNF, both of which will be optimised for Pocket PC delivery." Competing interests: None declared |
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Mike W, student Melbourne
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Does anyone know of any medical applications or programs that r free for the low on cash medical student? Competing interests: None declared |
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Thabani Sibanda, Senior SHO Southmead Hospital, Bristol, BS10 5NB, Nokuthaba Sibanda
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For obstetricians and midwives. It has all the functions of the obstetric wheel, using LMP, Ultrasound Dating, and also gives future dates for when a patient is at a specific gestation, and exact dates for 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesters. Available free on the internet at www.freewarepalm.com. Competing interests: None declared |
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venkat palaniappan, sho-ortho yeovil district hospital, ba21 4at
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i am one of the new users of ohcm. its very handy and no more unnecessary carrying of books. its quite useful and enjoy using ohcm in my handheld. it nearly cost around £ 40. one can download from this site- www.franklin.com. its a nice site to download Competing interests: None declared |
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Chris D Hill, Charge Nurse ITU, Royal Free Hospital, NW3 2QG
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The repligo viewer (www.cerience.com) will display pdf files and "virtually any document you have on your PC" (from the cerience website). I heard about it at the British Medical Informatics Society conference on handhelds last week and will certainly pay the $29.95 for it. I know the adobe reader is free, but what I like about this is it will show you how a (eg) pdf looks as a page, at multiple levels of zoom, as well as wrapping the text on the screen. It appears as a button in internet explorer, and works with other programs as a printer option. Chris Hill (I do not have any links with cerience!) Competing interests: None declared |
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