Wednesday 25 February 2009

Have you used Dynamed?

All Stockport NHS staff and students have access toDynaMed™:
http://cks.library.nhs.uk/dynamed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for health care professionals for use primarily at the point of care.

Why Would I Use DynaMed?
• Improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs by using the “best available evidence” for clinical decision-making
• Quickly obtain pertinent information right at the point of care with computer and/or PDA access
• Keep abreast of the latest medical research with daily updates from DynaMed’s systematic literature surveillance

What Will I Find in DynaMed?
• Topic Summaries — More than 3,000 clinically-organized evidence-based topic summaries covering all aspects of care
• Detailed Reference Support — More than 100,000 journal article references and Web links are directly cited
• Daily Updates — Systematic surveillance of hundreds of medical journals and evidence-based sources provides the most up-to date, accurate information
• Patient Information — Access relevant supplemental content to help educate patients about their conditions
You can download this to a Blackberry - see link below for video on this:
http://support.ebscohost.com/training/flash_videos/blackberrydynamed/blackberrydynamed.htm

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