Research Guides: Family Medicine: Point of Care Tools

What are Point of Care Tools?

Syntheses of current evidence for diagnosis, tests and interventions (e.g. treatments, drugs)

May include drug information, ICD coding, information for patients, and provision for links to electronic health records

BMJ Best Practice
A point of care tool from BMJ Evidence Centre designed to support clinicians in their decision making from diagnosis to treatment. Mobile access is available.
DynaMed
DynaMed is a next-generation clinical reference resource useful for getting answers to clinical questions quickly and easily. Content is written and reviewed by a team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.
Dynamed includes: Overviews and Recommendations for the most common conditions as well as evidence-based recommendations for action, Micromedex® Clinical Knowledge Suite drug content, and many medical graphics and images. Also included is a wide array of specialty topics in areas such as infectious disease and immunology, cardiology, oncology and emergency medicine. Mobile Access is available.
VisualDx
VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. With a strong dermatology component, this application can help quickly build a differential to evaluate the possibilities, compare variations, and improve diagnostic accuracy. Its vast medical image library includes many skin types, and pigments effectively providing access to clinical information and images at the point of care, on any device - mobile, tablet, or desktop. Images may be used in course management systems.

Check out the VisualDx YouTube page for short video tutorials on the following (and more!):

Bradley-Ridout, Nekolaichuk, E., Jamieson, T., Jones, C., Morson, N., Chuang, R., & Springall, E. (2021). Uptodate versus dynamed: A cross-sectional study comparing the speed and accuracy of two point-of-care information tools. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(3), 382–387. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1176

TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the evidence-based healthcare resources available on the Internet. Tutorial.