1. PDA for EBM

2. PDAs

3. Potential time saver Potential money saver Potential for reduced errors

4. Garritty C, El Emam K. Who’s Using PDAs? Estimates of PDA Use by Health Care Providers: A Systematic Review of Surveys. J Med Internet Res 2006;8(2):e7

5. The S-shaped diffusion of technology curve

6. BMC Med Educ. 2008; 8: 39.

7. Palm®webOS™

10. PDA OSs

11. Which Device is better? Determine which applications you will need Use different devices if possible before purchasing Prominence of a particular device in your environment Memory Wireless access availability Your “Keyboard style”

12. PDA vs. Tablet PC Lottridgeet al.BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:22

13. Clinical Applications Clinical drug references Electronic prescription tools Clinical textbooks Patient tracking Medical Calculators Evidence based reference

15. PICO Maker free Palm OS-based application create and store queries in the PICO format for later reference. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/pico/

17. Drug Lookup Tools – ePocratesRx Free Palm or Pocket PC compatible 3,000 brand & generic drugs Drug interaction checker Regular updates available

18. ePocrates Rx, cont’d Search by Drug Search by Class

19. ePocrates Rx, cont’d Drug Interactions Warning

20. ePocrates Rx, cont’d Insert your own annotations Lookup options

22. PubMed MD on Tap software: Software installed Palm and Pocket PC http://mdot.nlm.nih.gov/proj/mdot/mdot.php PubMed® for handhelds Web site Use PDA web browser to access Pubmed http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/

23. PubMed® for handhelds Web site http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/pubmed/index.html

24. PICO search http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/pico/piconew.html

25. MD on Tap software MEDLINE search limits History of previous queries Save citations to a PDA text file Evidence Based Medicine clusters Auto Spell Check Optional PICO Search Tab The MDoT project stopped developing client software for handheld devices in 2007

29. EE+

30. EE+

31. EE+

33. www.unboundmedicine.com

34. American College of Physicians Calorie Savings Food List Normal Lab Values from MKSAP 15 Vaccine Specific Information USPSTF Preventive Services Guidelines NCEP ATP III Guidelines ADA Guidelines Drugs Used in the Treatment of HIV Infection Table of Normal Physiological Changes During Pregnancy Pharmacotherapies for Acute Major Depression Differential Diagnosis Between Allergic and Nonallergic Rhinitis http://www.acponline.org/running_practice/technology/mobile_computing/

35. StatRefSkyscape

36. National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/ Palm users: each guideline can be downloaded as Palm document Pocket PC users directly access the entire site using PDA browser download all NGC guideline summaries as MS Word documents

39. Diagnostic Calculators: MedCalc(http://www.med-ia.ch/medcalc/tele.html) Free; includes many common calculators

40. MedCalc, cont’d

41. Evidence-Based Resources: EBM Calculator calculates statistics for RCTs as well as for diagnostic, prospective & case-control studies freeware program for Palm & Pocket PC

42. Resources www.medicalwizards.com/ www.pdamd.com www.pdacortex.com www.skyscape.com

43. So... PDA can be very helpful, very useful…

44. Just be patient…

45. Now… Go to: pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/ Use scenarios in your folder Do a PICO search Search MEDLINE/PubMed

46. Next… Go to: http://ktclearinghouse.ca/cebm/toolbox click on Stats Calculator do the calculation for the diagnostic study do the calculation online or download the palm or pocket PC version

47. click on "LR tables" scroll down to the tables find the LR+ for ST elevation in MI

48. click on "NNT tables" scroll down to the tables click on your specialty if there, or chose any specialty if you have palm PDA, scroll down to " Palm Download" and download the software