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Family Medicine

Answers to Clinical Questions

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Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021
EBM Decision Tree
EBM Tree organizes Dana Medical Library's most popular clinical databases, websites, and textbooks into an easy to access format designed to make evidence in the medical literature quickly available.
Essential Evidence Plus
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Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window
Integrative medicine database.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window

Books

DSM-5
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, abbreviated as DSM-5, is the 2013 update to the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) classification and diagnostic tool.
Telephone Triage Protocols for Nurses by Julie Briggs
Search CATQuest
Search most of the library's online and print collections, including the catalog and article databases.

Calculators

CHADS (2) Score
Child-Pugh Liver Cirrhosis Score
NCI Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
Please note that this link takes you to the US, Caucasian calculator. You may select different features from this link if you choose.

Diagnostic Tools

Diagnosaurus
Diagnosaurus provides differential diagnoses (DDx) of symptoms, signs, and diseases. From McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine
FamilyDoctor.org Search by Symptom
A short list of common symptoms from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

VisualDx This link opens in a new window
Offers 50,000+ images (including dermatological) and clinical information written by scholar physicians to assist in differential diagnoses.

Drug Information

IBM Micromedex This link opens in a new window
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window

Journals

Keeping up with the Evidence

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window

Essential Evidence Plus
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Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window

TRiP Database
Turning Research into Practice: UK-based clinical search tool that allows searching many EBM resources simultaneously.
U.S. Preventive Service Task Force - Search for Recommendations

Patient Education

Professional Sites

American Academy of Family Physicians

UVM ScholarWorks

Scholarly Works: Medicine
UVM ScholarWorks is the Institutional Repository (IR) for the University of Vermont. The repository brings together the University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide open access to that research.

Search for Articles

The full text of journal articles is often available online. Look for the button in most databases.

PubMed MEDLINE

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