AHRQ Announces New Web Site on Emerging Issues in Medical Therapeutics

From AHRQ

A new educational Web site offers expert perspectives, advice and guidance on drugs, biological products, and medical devices from AHRQ’s Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs).   The Clinician-Consumer Health Advisory Information Network (CHAIN) links clinicians and consumers with information on therapeutics to assist in clinical practice and health care decisionmaking in areas where evidence is undergoing significant and rapid changes.  The site also provides access to educational and informational resources developed from research conducted by CERTs and intended for use in improving health care quality, safety, and effectiveness.  Clinical topics included on the CHAIN Web site address the management of blood clot prevention with drug-eluting stents and expert opinions about topics where evidence is uncertain, such as restarting antiplatelet therapy if it has been interrupted.  The site’s educational section includes materials to assist consumers with clinician-patient conversations and decisionmaking as well as an online medication record.  Resources for clinicians include a slide library that can be adapted to educate clinical audiences and used for continuing medical education credit.  Select to read our press release.

Metabolic Irregularities Narrowing Down Device on the web.

M.I.N.D.’s new face over the web is @ www.usa21c.com

Currently it can analyse an ABG (Arterial Blood Gas); I plan to work stepwise on it, on  the first phase it will provide most of the medical calculations (medical calculator), on the second phase will provide differential diagnoses and on the later phases it will give evidence based recommendations for inpatient, critical and outpatient settings.

MIND online (a mini early online version)

After a lot of effort, I managed to upload a draft program in working progress — MIND (Metabolic Irregularities Narrowing Down Device) available on download.com or http://www.floeos.com . It all started as a medical school hobby, mainly for differential diagnosis of laboratory data with minimal clinical data. It’s main purpose is to save time for calculations at the point of care and rapidly to provide a smart, differential diagnosis based on laboratoty abnormalities. 

Unfortunately, during my residency found that there is no place for a downloadabe POC tool, and most of the users want a rapid  online tool. Finally, I managed to make a mini on-line version of MIND.  Of course it will require hundreds of hours of programming in order to get it’s final shape but you can get a glimpse at the following link: On-line MIND

Did you know?

You can access free Harrison’s online, Cecils, Harrisons POC tool, a wonderful DDX tool and many many more utilities on the web if you are a US physician or resident. You just need your AMA number. Register free at www.merckmedicus.com. Enjoy!