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Clinical Calculators, Lab Tests

Dictionaries

Disease Classification

Drug and Herbal Information

Manuals

APA Publication Manual and Other Citing Aids

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association:  Copies are available in the Main Library (5th ed., Reserve or Reference, BF76.7 .P83 2001) or may be purchased at the book store. There are a number of online tools to help you use APA style:

Brief guides to using APA style (http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm This is a link to another web site): These are quick guides only and not the authoritative source, which exists only in print.

Electronic Media and URLs (http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html This is a link to another web site)
Guidelines provided by the American Psychological Association on using their format to cite Internet resources.

CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ This is a link to another web site) is a freely available service that aids in identifying the DOI (digital object identifier) that is a required element by APA in citing some electronic sources. CrossRef provides several different means for identifying a needed DOI.

Clinical Calculators and Laboratory Tests

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Lab Tests Online
This site is provided by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and has been designed to aid both patient and caregiver "to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases." This non-commercial site provides peer-reviewed information.

MDCalc: click, solve, diagnose
Site provides a compilation of equations for various medical calculations. Hand re-checking of all calculations is advised.

Dictionaries -- Specialized

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Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
A concise guide to the essential language of medicine, including brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs. Provides more than 35,000 entries, each with a pronunciation guide.

Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
This project was commissioned by The European Commission and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of Applied Linguistics. Languages covered are: Dansk (Danish), Deutsche (German), English, Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Nederlands (Dutch), Português (Portuguese).

Who Named It?
Useful site to identify the individuals for whom diseases, syndromes, etc. are named. The site intends to "present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons."

Disease Classification

This National Center for Health Statistics This is a link to another web site page provides information on:

  • International Classification of Diseases (ICD): used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates.
  • International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM): used to code and classify morbidity data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys.
  • International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)

Drug and Herbal Information

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DailyMed
DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs, including the most recent labeling information submitted to the FDA and provided in package inserts. Included is a link for the reporting of adverse events.

Definition of Prescription Abbreviations
This site page provides useful information on the definitions of abbreviations commonly found on prescriptions.

Drug Information Portal
This site is a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other federal agencies. More than 12,000 drugs are included.

Herbal Safety
This website by the U. of Texas at El Paso is designed to provide research-based information on herbals and their safe use. The ones highlighted are those used frequently in the southwest U.S. Safety information is provided in both English and Spanish.

HerbMed
"An interactive, electronic herbal database - provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public."

Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
Database provides patient advisory leaflets for over 1,450 medications and natural products, plus 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications.

MEDLINEplus Drug Information
Provides information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications through two drug resources -- MedMaster™†, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® ‡, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).

Medical Images

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Health Education Assets Library
This site provides access to more than 21,000 high quality and freely accessible digital teaching resources for health sciences education.

Images.MD
Features more than 48,000 high-quality medical images, each one accompanied by authoritative text from 2000 of the world’s leading medical experts. More than 90 subject collections can be found on the site ranging from allergies to cardiology, from neurology to urology, making this a valuable resource for all those in the health sciences.

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
This site contains photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is intended to serve public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the public with their reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.

Manuals

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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
This 1999 centennial edition of the Manual covers all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as expert information relating to special subjects. It is designed to provide "information that helps practitioners achieve optimal care." Material is presented in 23 sections and is completely searchable.

Merck Manual of Geriatrics
This publication focuses on the medical problems of the elderly, providing clinical information to all physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals involved in the care of elderly patients. Non-health care professionals will also find this publication extremely useful."

Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition
The Home Edition "uses everyday language to provide information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment." Includes illustrations.