medline / pubmed in your hand: tools for the mobile clinician
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MEDLIME / Pubmed In Your Hand
At Any Time And Any Place :Tools For The Mobile Clinician
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It is easy now to provide the mobile physicians with real-time access to
MEDLINE/PubMed for clinical decision support at the point of care. Many of these tools are mostly in a
text-only format suitable for handheld devices and practitioners in low
resource areas.
MEDLIME / Pubmed In Your Hand
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Some applications make use of recent Web2.0 technologies such as spelling
suggestions, slider interfaces and javascript utilities while some provide a free text, natural language entry to searching.
Other tools utilize text messaging with mobile phones.
MEDLIME / Pubmed In Your Hand
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Useful Tools For The Mobile Clinician
1- PICO Search
2- askMEDLINE3-Search MEDLINE/PubmMed4- Read Journal Abstract5-Search Disease Association6- Access via SMS: txt2MEDLINE
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PubMed for Handheldshttp://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/
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Tool # OneSearch
MEDLINE/PubMed via P.I.C.O.
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Search MEDLINE via PICO• The well-built clinical question has four
components. The mnemonic PICO is useful for remembering these.:
• Patient or Problem - InterventionComparison - Outcomes
• Defining the clinical question in this way will easily lead to the second step in the EBM process--searching for relevant research results.
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P.I.C.O with Spelling Checker and Publication Type
P = Problem
I = Intervention
O = Outcome
C = Compare to
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Search MEDLINE/PubMed via Pico ( I ) http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/picostudy/pico2.html
PICO
+Clinical
Question Type
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Search MEDLINE/PubMed via Pico ( II ) http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlm/picostudy/pico3.html
PICO Without Clinical Question Type
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Optional …Select Publication
Type:
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Spelling Checker & Suggested Word
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Search Results Items
•Title of the article
•Source
•PubMed ID
•Links to:-
A- TLB
B- Abstract
C- Full-Text
D- Related Articles
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Explore the “TLB” To view the Conclusion/
Interpretationof any selected articles
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Tool # Two
askMEDLINE
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askMEDLINE is intended for the clinician, researcher, and other
information seekers interested in finding current evidence in MEDLINE/PubMed and want to ask their clinical question with a simple with a simple
shortcut methodshortcut method
The URL of Ask MEDLINE
http://askmedline.nlm.nih.gov/ ask/asktbl.php?from=tbld
ask MEDLINE
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Using ask MEDLINE1. Enter a medical term, or phrase of interest 2. A list of previous queries, containing the
word or phrase will be shown. 3. Follow the link, ‘References’ to search, then
browse through retrieved citations from MEDLINE/PubMed
4. Since this is a real-time search, it may retrieve more references than the original search.
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askMEDLINE Free-text, natural language (English only)
query for MEDLINE/PubMed(with GSpell spelling checker)
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You can submit any question even a badly-phrased one !!!
---------------Can vitamin c improve common
cold ?????!!!!!
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Result screen of the submitting question• Your question:
can vitamin c improve common coldIf this search strategy does not meet your requirements, you may use PICO or Ask
another question.You may also use <BabelMeSH><, if you want
to search in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.
• 201 results: ------ ( See the Next Slide )
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Result screen of the submitting question
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Search Previous ( similar ) Queries
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Using MeSH Speller+ askMEDLINE
: improve your search query
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Multilanguage Search for MEDLINE ( BableMeSH)
http://babelmesh.nlm.nih.gov/
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Tool # ThreeSearch
MEDLINE/PubMed
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Search MEDLINE/PubMed
•1- Search with no filters • 2- USE FILTERS:
• Systematic Reviews• Clinical Queries
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlmd/pubmed/index.html
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Search MEDLINE/PubMed
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Tool # Four
Read Journals Abstract
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Read Journals Abstract
http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/nlmd/pubmed/jbrowse.html
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Tool # Five Disease
Associations
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Disease Associations
http://askmedline.nlm.nih.gov/ask/da.php?from=tbld
• Disease Associations with GSpell Search case reports and review of reported cases in MEDLINE/PubMed
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Disease Associations
http://askmedline.nlm.nih.gov/ask/da.php?from=tbld
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Disease Association with G-Spell
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Tool # SixAccess to MEDLINE
via SMS
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Access to MEDLINE via SMS
http://sms.nlm.nih.gov/tbl/txt.php
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Access to MEDLINE via SMS
• txt2MEDLINE• Healthcare personnel use text
messaging to communicate with patients and colleague.
• txt2MEDLINE• was developed to allow convenient
access to MEDLINE/PubMed through SMS.
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Results to cell phone: Options A&B
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Results to cell phone: view plain test
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• COMMANDS IN UPPER CASE END WITH ‘?’
• search terms in lower case and numbers.
• By default, search results will be sent to mobile phone.
SMS Commands
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• To search: • S?cts steroid rct• LR?3 (Limit Results to 3 or
less)• LR?4-6 (Limit Results 4 to 6)
SMS Commands
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To send results:• [email protected] or MR?123ab• (send results via e-mail ONLY)• [email protected] or MC?123ab • (send results via mobile phone with an
e-mail copy)
SMS Commands
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• SR?123ab (For registered user only, sends results to mobile phone if search by other methods, like instant messaging.)
Example:• S?cts steroid vs surg rct LR?2
MC?123ab
SMS Commands
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Thank You شكراً
Dr Ahmed-Refat RefatFaculty of Medicine, Zagazig University
Zagazig, EGYPT Feb. 2010