FSU-Orlando
Decision Support Resources
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants should be able to:
Knowledge
• Identify various categories of disease information, to include etiology, pathophysiology, incidence and prevalence, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, etc.
• Identify the depth of information in each disease resource
• Identify if a resource is constantly updated versus only updated when new “editions” are published
• Identify online and PDA resources for the following:
• Differential Diagnosis
o DxPlain
o Epocrates Sx
o PEPID
• Disease Quick References
o Epocrates Dx
o PEPID
o Dynamed
o Harrison’s Practice
• Calculators
• Essential Evidence Plus-(Online and PDA)
1. Clinical Rules and such
• Epocrates-(Online and PDA)
• PEPID
• Coding
• Essential Evidence Plus (Online and PDA)
• CDC
• Laboratory resources
• Access Medicine (Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests)
• ePocrates Labs (Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests)
• PEPID Lab Manual
Skills:
• Use online and PDA resources to determine a differential diagnosis
• Use online and PDA resources to find disease information
• Use online and PDA resources to find ICD-9 codes
• Use online and PDA Calculators
• Find laboratory information
Attitudes
• Use electronic information at the point of care and regular electronic alerts/news as methods for keeping up to date.
• Model the use of the library resources in your practice to keep up to date is one of the greatest things you can do while teaching FSU CoM medical students.