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Tools for Diagnosis and Treatment Using Evidence

 

Point-of-Care Tools

Evidence-Based Optometry Tutorial

Systematic Reviews/Cochrane Library

Other Evidence-Based Treatment Tools

Practice Guidelines

HIPAA

 

Point-of-Care Tools

As a busy clinician, you may not have time to evaluate evidence on-the-spot. Point-of-care tools do the work for you, compiling and summarizing current studies on an vision topics and beyond. Our point-of-care tools include:

   DynaMed Plus

Quick access to 3,000+ health-related topics.

• Drug information
• Risk factors
• Prevalence/incidence
• Etiology and pathogenesis
• Treatment
• Complications
• Prognosis
• Prevention and screening
• Patient handouts

   STAT!Ref

• Drug information
• Patient information
• Numerous medical manuals

 

Evidence-Based Optometry Tutorial

Interested in learning more about evidence-based medicine/evidence-based optometry? Check out our tutorial.

 

Systematic Reviews/Cochrane Library

You can find systematic reviews at:

   Cochrane Library

   PubMed Clinical Queries

Type in a search term and then look at the middle column, which contains a list of systematic reviews on the search term.

 

Other Evidence-Based Medicine Tools

   Trip Database (Turning Research Into Practice)

   BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

   ACP Journal Club

   ACCESSSS Smart Search from McMaster PLUS

Free, but registration required.

 

Practice Guidelines

   AAO Preferred Practice Patterns

   AOA Optometric Clinical Practice Guidelines

Note that some guides are quite outdated at this point, and that the evidence-based guidelines are likely the most reliable.

 

HIPAA

   Health Information Privacy

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Reviews HIPAA and other health information related acts.