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is provided as a service. Use of the applications must comply
with the conditions defined by the system originators and/or
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Clinical knowledge management and decision support applications on the WWW
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 PDR.net
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Evidence-based medical portal
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clinical domains |
| Evidence-based medicine, medical reference,
medical portal,
patient safety, medication safety, quality of care, decision
support, WWW, PDA |
Allergy/immunology, cardiology, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, nephrology, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology, women's health.
Further specialties planned. |
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Thomson Healthcare Inc. Content derived from Thomson Micromedex.
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"Access to PDR.net ... is free to U.S.-based MDs, DOs, dentists,
NPs and PAs in full-time patient practice, and to U.S. medical students, residents and
other select prescribing allied health professionals.
"Any healthcare professional with a DEA number can log on to PDR.net to register to
become a member..."
Members of PDR.net can also download free Thomson Clinical Xpert, a medical reference and decision support tool
for Palm and Windows-based handheld devices.
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| description |
PDR.net is a medical information portal for
healthcare professionals offering access to drug, diagnosis and
treatment information at the point of care via desktop, PDA and email.
PDR.net offers "19 specialty resource centers"
(Allergy/immunology, cardiology, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, nephrology, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology, women's health)
Planned resource centers: Gastroenterology, Hematology, Infectious disease, Ophthalmology, HIV/AIDS, Oncology and Orthopedics will be added.
PDR.net covers "seven to twelve of the most
common medical conditions within [each] specialty.
The resource centers include tailored multi-drug interaction checkers, a drug regimen tool,
medical news feeds, conference information, monthly practice trends summaries,
customizable patient education resources and Xpert Alerts – messages that alert users
to relevant clinical trials, as well as new drug and drug treatment information such
as new indications and interactions."
"PDR.net also features the largest online database of FDA-approved pharmaceutical label
information from the Physicians' Desk Reference®".
Condensed versions of PDR.net clinical information (mainly sourced from Micromedex, another Thomson company)
also are available on Thomson
Clinical Xpert, a PDA-based application freely available to the same classes of health professional as PDR.net.
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Thomson Healthcare
Montvale
N.J, USA.
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| acknowledgements |
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| page history |
Entry on OpenClinical: 16 January 2007
Last main update: 16 January 2007
Design - template v0.2: 24 June 2005. |
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PDR.net