In a nutshell…evidence based medicine

What is evidence based medicine (EBM)?
Handoll and Smith [1] define EBM as “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” (p.251).
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Omnio | The Innovative Medical App

Omnio | The Innovative Medical App

omnio.com

 a medical app customized for my professional clinical needs. Available for iOS and Android

	Merck Manual   Omnio includes a free copy of the world’s best selling medical textbook.   Browse Merck Manual »
	Symptom checker   Enter your patient’s symptoms and get a list of matching conditions and diagnoses

Associated Press Videos Will Be Soon displayed in EBSCO Search Result List

If you are a subscriber to at least one of the databases listed here, you will soon receive high-interest video content from the Associated Press. When you search in EBSCOhost®, EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Explora™, a carousel of AP videos related to your search terms may display in the result list. Containing footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of approximately 60,000 videos covers a variety of topics studied in schools and colleges. Users can find videos about current and historical events; famous people including political leaders, celebrities and athletes; as well as videos related to art, music, literature, science and technology.
http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=7577

How patients can use Internet research when seeing a doctor

How patients can use Internet research when seeing a doctor

Here are some tips and considerations to make your research-infused visit more like the best case.

 

What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?

What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? https://lnkd.in/evXVZUG
Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages afforded us by...

Doctors share their personal stories of grief after this heartbreaking image goes viral

Doctors share their personal stories of grief after this heartbreaking image goes viral 

'Patients will come and go - we will save a lot of them, but some we cannot save.'

An image apparently of an emergency room doctor crying after losing a patient has prompted an outpouring of sympathetic stories from medical professionals.

The image, taken from the Facebook page of an emergency medical technician and posted on the website Reddit, went viral, receiving over 4000 ‘upvotes’.

Preventing low-volume hospitals from performing certain surgeries

I was incredibly impressed by the announcement that three top U.S. health systems — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and the University of Michigan Health System — will be enforcing standards that prevent low-volume hospitals from performing certain surgeries.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/06/preventing-low-volume-hospitals-from-performing-certain-surgeries.html