Nursing Resources for UMC: Clinical Resources

Evidence summaries and best practice information sheets from JBI

Clinical search engine designed to bring high-level evidence to the top of the results

Comprehensive point-of-care resource

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Lexidrug provides adult and pediatric drug information in addition to interaction analysis, drug identification tools, medical calculators, and patient education materials.

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The Medical Letter On Drugs and Therapeutics is an independent, peer-reviewed, nonprofit publication that offers searchable, unbiased critical evaluations of drugs, with special emphasis on new drugs. Also included are Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter, Adverse Drug Interactions Program, the Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy, and online CME/CE.

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The Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotics) Guide is an evidence-based clinical decision resource that delivers up-to-date, authoritative information on infectious diseases, drugs, and pathogens written by the experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Public Access
LactMed contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate.

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Visual diagnostic tool that builds a patient-specific pictorial differential diagnosis based on the patient’s findings. The clinician can compare diseases side by side and then drill down to see the range in presentation within each disease in the differential. (light skin, dark skin, early/late stage, unusual presentations, severe cases, etc.) Handbook length text on each disease also is included to help guide diagnostic decision making and learn more about appropriate tests and treatment.