Tufts Resources

• Point of Care Resources

DynaMed

• Available for iPhone/iTouch, Smartphone, BlackBerry, Pocket PC, and Palm.
• Request a serial number for your mobile device by emailing dynamedsupport@epnet.com using your Tufts' email address. When you receive the number, see the instructions at Technical instructions for installation.

DynaMed includes evidence-based summaries by clinicians of diseases, disorders, and symptoms, with information on etiology, associated conditions, history and research findings, differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment, prevention, and links to patient information.

Pediatric Care Online (American Academy of Pediatrics)


• Click Mobile link on PCO homepage and follow link to New Customer Registration. Create an Individual Account.
• You will be automatically logged in. See Mobile Resources menu > Download Software for your device
• Available for iPhone/iTouch, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, and Android.

Includes AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, Red Book, Tools such as Interactive Periodicity Schedule, Signs & Symptoms Search and Clinical Calculators plus a quick-reference guide for point-of-care topics, and more.

UpToDate

• Available for Pocket PC, Smartphone and Palm. See requirements.
• Register your web-browsing Pocket PC or Smartphone at the LRC Desk on Library 5 to access via WiFi as UpToDate is only available on campus. Then access via http://pda.uptodate.com.

Clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 400 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. The content is peer reviewed, fully referenced and includes a graded recommendations.


• RefMobile is a version of RefWorks (a citation management tool) for mobile and smart phones, as well as PDAs, that allows you to access and view your references, manage folders and add information to the Notes field of your references. SmartAdd is a feature that will search the web for references based on a digital object identifier (DOI), PubMed ID (PMID), PubMed Central ID (PMCID), ISSN/ISBN number or by author and publication year or even search using part of a title.   References located by SmartAdd can be imported into your RefWorks account via RefMobile.  Access RefMobile at http://www.refworks.com/mobile and use the Tufts group code is RWTuftsU.
• TUSK
  Class schedules can be read on your PDA. See its instructions.
• tufts.mobi
  Tufts University mobile web
• Handhelds in medicine: A practical guide for physicians
  5th Floor Stacks W 26.55.C7 S77 2005

Nutrition Specific Resources

• ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines
• BMI Calculator
• Food Guide Pyramid
• OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool
• PubMed for Handhelds
• USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
  
• USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
  The major source of food composition data in the U.S. and provides the foundation for most food composition databases in the public and private sectors. Contains data on 7,000 food items and up to 130 food components. The database is downloadable including files required to search the databases.

See also Medical Mobile Resources