Monday, November 03, 2008

BMJ Point of Care

The Library now has a trial subscription to BMJ Point of Care, a new clinical resource brought to you jointly by the BMJ Group and Epocrates.

BMJ Point of Care is designed specifically to deliver diagnosis and treatment guidance in the clinical setting. It provides:

* Comprehensive disease monographs that include competing diagnoses, treatment approaches, tests to order, and guidelines
* Treatment details organized by patient group
* Embedded links to BMJ Clinical Evidence
* Information on over 3,300 drugs and 400 alternative medicines, with a comprehensive drug interaction checking tool
* Up-to-date, detailed formulary information for top national and regional healthcare insurance plans
* Fully referenced with links to Pubmed abstracts
* A useful pill identifier tool plus hundreds of helpful medical tables and calculators.

The trial will end at the end of 2008. Try it and send an email to askref@aecom.yu.edu to tell us what you think.