Category Archives: Clinical Medicine

New VisualDX features and usability enhancements

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VisualDx now offers several new enhancements:

  • Drug Eruptions with Drug Citations: VisualDx has expanded its disease information to include citations from the literature documenting drug-disease relationships for every diagnosis with an associated medication finding.
  • Sorting of Differential Builder Results: Rankings are now based on importance and commonality/rarity in North America.
  • Associated Medications Disease Search and Text: Drug-induced conditions can now be searched by medication name using the search function in VisualDx. Each diagnosis will now feature an associated medications table that allows users to sort the list by medication name or number of citations in literature.
  • Content Additions: VisualDx has added 35 new diagnoses and 412 new images (22,758 in total).

Ginger Roberts, Library Liaison to the Medical School, says, “Students and new residents tell me they’re glad we have VisualDx, especially because its ease makes it a quick reference, and having a ‘jillion’ images can only help. The MS1s & MS2s say the differentials are great for new learning support.”

UpToDate's newest feature: Graphics Search

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The ability to search graphics was one of the most requested features in UpToDate‘s recent subscriber survey. With a new Graphics Search, clinicians can search graphics directly without first going to a topic. Finding the right graphic quickly will now be much easier and will save time.

UpToDate has more than 23,000 graphics, including pictures, tables, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, algorithms, and movies. These graphics can help make evidence-based medical decisions, prepare for lectures, and educate peers, students, and patients.

This new feature enables users to:

  • Search all the graphics in UpToDate
  • See search results in thumbnail format
  • See all topics that reference a particular graphic
  • View all graphics associated with a topic in thumbnail format

UpToDate’s informational flyer can assist with how to use this new function.

UpToDate restored in 2011

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Last October, the Library announced that the campus subscription to UpToDate would cease in November 2010 due to withdrawal of campus funding for this resource. Since then, the Library has gathered feedback from faculty, students, and staff regarding UpToDate, and this feedback was beneficial in allocating additional funding to restore the campus UpToDate subscription.
The Library is currently negotiating with UpToDate to provide a campus subscription to this valuable resource. Temporary access to UpToDate has been restored as of January 2011. The Library Clinical Evidence Resources portal, a collection of sources of evidence-based information, will include UpToDate. As a reminder, the Library is available for group or individual instructions on any evidence-based resources such as DynaMed, ACP PIER, and UpToDate.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database

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Does garlic act to lower cholesterol?  Does St. John’s Wort
relieve depression?

The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database was created by a group of pharmacists and physicians responding to the need for up-to-date clinical data on natural medicines, herbal medicines, and dietary supplements. The research and editorial staff of the Pharmacist’s Letter and Prescriber’s Letter evaluate natural medicines by the same scientific criteria used to evaluate prescription and non-prescription drugs.

Search by product or brand name, by condition or disease, or by interaction. The evaluations include references to medical literature which are linked to the PubMed article abstract.

For assistance with the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, contact Katherine Alexander, Education Librarian, 214-648-3905, or send your reference question via this form.