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PDA (Personal
Digital
Assistant)
The PDA has become an useful tool
for daily work and leisure. For the family doctor, it can be
much more than a versatile and practical agenda: it may also be a
source of scientific knowledge always updated and
available in any place (from doctor's office to patient's
domicile or even at a scientific congress...), an easy way to
perform evidence based medicine, a patient files manager, a
medical calculator and a good backup of important documents.
Have you ever thought to be able to take with you, anywhere you
go, textbooks like the classical
Harrison's, the Currents, the Clinical Evidence, the 5
Minutes Clinical Consult and complete drug guides, all at the
same time?
In the field of leisure, the PDA
can serve as a MP3 player, as an easy access to general news,
weather, as a console of games, as a GPS navigator, among other
functions.
There are two main types of PDAs:
Palm and Pocket PC. The functionalities are similar
and both are synchronizable with the PC.
In this webpage, you'll find some
software with some of the above described functions. This
selection is biased by the author's own experience and taste…
Carlos Martins, GP
St. John Health Centre
Faculty of Medicine - University of
Porto
Porto, Portugal
Medical PDA software
Other PDA software
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Epocrates
Rx
A tool to help
medical prescription. Complete information on drugs: dosing,
contraindications, interactions, adverse reactions, safety
profile, pharmacology, etc. Very friendly to use, although
somewhat "heavy" for the PDA memory. Precious function:
MultiChecK! An easy way to check drug interactions. Very useful
on multiple medication management.
Some other
functions: medical calculator, narcotic analgesic converter,
corticosteroid converter, INR management.
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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CURRENT CONSULT Medicine
The PDA
version of the Lange's best-selling CURRENT Medical Diagnosis &
Treatment. Useful and very easy to use. The structure of the
software allows you to quickly find the answer to your daily clinical questions. A good investment: 64,95 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Mobile
Merck Medicus
Much more than a simple PDA
version of the traditional "The Merck Manual". It presents
multiple functionalities: eWatch, Harrison's Practice,
MEDLINE Journals, MerckMedicus News, Pocket Guide to
Diagnostic Tests, Medical Reuters News, RSS News Feeds, Search
and The Manual Merck, Professional Edition. From these, I
point out the Merck Manual that has a structure of easy use
and allows you to quickly find the answers you need. I
also point out the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
- very useful!
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy
A useful guide of antimicrobial
therapy. You may start your search from the infectious disease
or from the antibiotic. It costs 29,95 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Simposium Terapêutico
A portuguese drugs book.
Pocket PC
Free
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TheraDoc Antibiotic
Assistant
An antibiotic assistant. This
software leads you through a series of questions where the
characteristics of the patient and his clinical situation are
introduced until you get the final antibiotic option.
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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TheraDoc
Pain
Management
A pain management assistant.
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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Clinical
Evidence
Evidence base medicine with
quality, although not very friendly to use. 49.95 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
59.95 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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5 Minute Clinical Consult
64.45 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Shots
"Shots 2007 is a quick reference
guide to the 2007 Childhood Immunization Schedule, a
collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and
the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the
2006-2007 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Details on
each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names."
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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EBM2go
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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EBM guidelines
255 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Pocket Consult
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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Artigos
sobre o uso do PDA na MGF
The Top PDA Resources for Family
Physicians
Take Your Personal Digital Assistant to
the Next Level
An Easy Way to Evaluate Software for Your
PDA
Free Medical Applications for Your PDA
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Adobe Reader
for Pocket PC
Very useful.
Palm
Pocket PC
Free
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Agenda Fusion
A practical
agenda that allows you to synchronize with your PC Microsoft
Outlook tasks, schedules and contacts. It costs 29,95 USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Pocket Music
A versatile MP3 player.
Pocket PC
Free
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Dictionary Pt-Ing Slovo Ed
A Portuguese-English and
English-Portuguese dictionary. Simple to use. It costs 34,95
USD.
Palm
Pocket PC
Not for free
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TomTom Navigator
GPS navigation
software that can be installed in a Pocket PC equipped with a
GPS receiver. In Pocket PCs without GPS receiver, it is
necessary to acquire an external GPS receiver that will
communicate with your device via Bluetooth.
Pocket PC
Not for free
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Total Commander
An alternative
to the original File Explorer. It costs 28 euros.
Palm
Pocket PC Free
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Journal Bar
A good way to
get updated information on many general topics: weather, news,
sports, finance, culture, etc. You have the option to choose the
cities for which you desire to get the weather
forecast and you also choose the sources of news you want to
receive. Very useful for travellers. Practical example: it
allows you to have in your Pocket PC the BBC news, the Der
Spiegel news and the weather forecast for Porto, Lisbon and
Barcelona (simultaneously). It costs 29,99 euros.
Pocket PC
Not for free
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