Just the Facts

Access UW only
This resource is restricted to the UW campus computer network. Remote access is available to UW faculty, staff, and students (more info on remote access).

Full-Text
The majority of information in Essential Evidence Plus is full-text or linked to full-text.

Updates
Essential Evidence Plus is updated 3 or 4 times each year (current update info).

PDA info
UW faculty, staff, and students many download Essential Evidence Plus for Palm OS or Pocket PC. For more info see EE+ download page.

Publisher info
Wiley InterScience/InfoPOEMs
E-mail: info@infopoems.com
Tel: 877-MED-POEM (US toll free)
Tel: 434-971-1816
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Help & Tutorials

• Essential Evidence Plus Product Manual
• Searching & Browsing
  

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What is it?

An evidence-based, point of care (bedside), compendium of resources and tools designed for primary care clinicians and delivered to the PDA or workstation. Essential Evidence Plus searches 7 different databases:

• EBM Guidelines - 1,000 concise primary care practice guidelines, 3,000+ high quality evidence summaries and a library of hundreds of photographs and images.
• Decision Support Calculators - 225+ calculators designed to help estimate the likelihood of a diagnosis, calculate a patients risk for disease, estimate a prognosis, or calculate a drug dose.
• POEMs ("Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters"™) - Synopses of new evidence carefully filtered for relevance to patient care and evaluated for validity. .
• Diagnostic Test Calculators - Test characteristics and an estimate of the probability of disease before doing the test. Also outlines the probability of the disease based upon the results of test.
• History and Physical Test Calculators - Probability of the disease based upon the results of clinical evaluation before doing additional testing.
• Abstracts of Cochrane Systematic Reviews - Summaries of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library, the most rigorous and reliable evaluations of medical therapies.
• Evidence-based Practice Guideline Summaries - 700+ evidence-based guidelines from various sources, including the National Guideline Clearinghouse, with links to the complete online guideline when available.

These additional resources are also available:

• Derm Expert - 1,000 images, along with clear guidelines, to help clinicians quickly and easily identify the right diagnosis.
• E/M Coding - Helps determine the most appropriate code to use for Medicare's Evaluation and Management Services.
• The ICD-9 Lookup Tool - Interface for searching the most commonly used ICD-9 diagnosis codes.

Are there other products like it?

In many ways, Essential Evidence Plus is unique in that it brings together a variety of evidence-based sources to the bedside. However, InfoPOEMs, the heart of this product, can be compared to the sources that survey the journal literature and provide synopses to articles that warrant the attention of practicing clinicians such as ACP Journal Club or DARE.

Special features

Daily POEMs Alerts - All UW faculty, staff, and students with a valid UW ID can sign up to receive InfoPOEMs by e-mail every Monday through Friday. Please contact Chris Hooper-Lane at chooper at library.wisc.edu to subscribe.

POEM of the Week Podcasts - Each week, Dr. Mark Ebell, POEMs Editor, joins Dr. Michael Wilkes, NPR correspondent and Vice-Dean of the UC-Davis Medical School, for a five minute discussion about an important recent POEM. The discussion provides additional depth and insight into the issue covered by the POEM synopsis. You can choose one week's podcast at a time or subscribe to the ongoing series.