The Mobile Merck Medicus is a complete repository of useful clinical tools and references all packed together in a single easy to use Unbound Medicine interface.
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Review page
At a glance page
Video demo page
Each of the tools is also reviewed in pda4peds website in different categories.
What is amazing here is that all these services are just free! though only US health care professionals can subscribe to Merck Medicus where they can download the PDA application.
These tools are:
Medline Journals and Medline Search: Any Medline journal table of contents can be retrieved. I chose the journals seen in the image above which are the most recognized pediatric journals worldwide. Issue by issue and the articles are there … stop dreaming these are only abstracts and citations and no full text of course. Also we can search the Medline for any query and the search results will pop up in in your default browser when you synchronize the PDA with the desktop, something which is not so great if we remember that there are services that can get us the results on the PDA itself such as MD on Tap. Not only that but also you can specify a topic and you will get regular updates about it whenever anything posted on Medline (in the image example above I chose ITP).
News and Alerts: Also in the package is Reuters medical news which is a great service of breaking medical news and channels that can be specified through the online account of Merck Medicus. I chose here pediatrics, emergency medicine, infectious, and top stories. These are summaries of recent articles and research that is of real clinical significance. Moreover, there are RSS feeds from CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO and others (also choose your favorite channels through the online account of Merck Medicus). Something I cannot understand here that the news in the online Merck Medicus is quite different from this mobile version!
References: Currently there are three references included in the Mobile Merck Medicus. These are the Merck Manual professional edition, Harrison’s Answers on demand, and the fourth edition of the Pocket Guide of Diagnostic Tests. Great resources and very useful even for the pediatrician and adequately cross linked between each other in a lovely Unbound Medicine PDA interface. Quite suprisingly Unbound Medicine offers the Merck Manual for mobile devices for $50!! Please don’t buy that because it is available here in Mobile Merck Medicus for free.
That will conclude into one of the most complete PDA resources available. It is just missing a descent drug reference (although there are drug monographs in Harrison’s) and a good clinical calculator and hopefully they will add them in the future.
The whole application is also available as a mobile website where we can launch it via wireless connection but unfortunately it is not as rich as the real Merck Medicus online reference. Merck Medicus also provides TheraDoc for free which a PDA tool that calculates the best antibiotic choice for a given patient but it is not pediatric specific.
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