Mobile Resources Guide
OHSU Library Recommended Mobile Apps
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
AccessMedicine provides information on basic sciences and medicine, including the Lange Current Diagnosis and Treatment series, Harrison's, and Goodman and Gilman's.
For mobile access:- Create a Free MyAccess Profile
- Download the free AccessMedicine by Unbound Medicine app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Log into MyAccess while on your phone. This will update the app with content from AccessMedicine.
- Open AccessMedicine app and enjoy access to Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Fitspatrick's Clinical Dermatology Atlas, Diagnosaurus, and Quick Guide to Diagnostics Tests.
- The Prevention TaskForce This link opens in a new window
The Prevention TaskForce (formerly ePSS) is an application designed to help primary care clinicians identify clinical preventive services that are appropriate for their patients. Use the tool to search and browse U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on the web or on your mobile device.
For mobile access:- Download the free app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- The Prevention TaskForce is a free application and does not require an account
- Click on the green install button at the resulting page.
- Browse by topic, create bookmarks, and search for patient recommendations using the tabs at the bottom of the application
- Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking This link opens in a new window
The Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking contains the critical information needed to obtain a meaningful health history, conduct a thorough physical exam, and interpret the findings quickly and accurately. Locate answers fast and review step-by-step techniques and possible findings using the distinctive two-column format, optimized for both smartphones and tablets.
For mobile access:- Download the free UCentral app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Mobile link at the top toolbar of the resulting page. First time users can register for an account. Once you register, you can log in to use mobile or to personalize your web experience.
- Using the login information you created when you registered, login to the app on your device.
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
ClinicalKey is a clinical decision-making support tool, which includes clinical overviews, drug monographs, clinical calculators, procedure videos, as well as access to full text journals and over 1,000 ebooks.
For mobile access:
- Set up a Personal Account
- Request Remote Access
- Download the free ClinicalKey app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- At the Choose Role screen, select ClinicalKey
- Launch the app and log in with your Personal Account credentials
- ClinicalKey for Nursing This link opens in a new window
ClinicalKey for Nursing is a clinical reference platform that includes content from evidence-based nursing monographs, books, journals, practice guidelines, and core measures with nursing recommendations as well as Procedures Consult and Clinical Skills topics. This resources provides information to support nursing care in areas such as administering medication, managing nurse policy, monitoring for complications, and providing patient education.
For mobile access:
- Set up a Personal Account
- Request Remote Access
- Download the free ClinicalKey app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- At the Choose Role screen, select ClinicalKey for Nursing
- Launch the app and log in with your Personal Account credentials
Mosby's Nursing Skills is now Clinical Key Nursing. Use ClinicalKey for Nursing.
- Davis' Drug Guide This link opens in a new window
Davis’s Drug Guide delivers comprehensive and practical information on over 5,000 trade name and generic drugs. This up-to-date resource contains everything you need to provide premium care to patients including information on dosing and administration, safety, interactions, and patient teaching. Contains integrated calculators, including a link directly from a drug monograph to a built-in dosing calculator.
For mobile access:
- Download the free UCentral app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access Davis' Drug Guide via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Mobile link at the top toolbar of the resulting page. First time users can register for an account. Once you register, you can log in to use mobile or to personalize your web experience.
- Using the login information you created when you registered, login to the app on your device.
- DynaMed This link opens in a new window
This point of care tool provides information on thousands of diagnoses and diagnostic tests as well as diagnostic and treatment guidelines. Patient leaflets are also included.
For mobile access:
- Make sure your device is connected to your institutions' wifi. If you're off-campus/outside of the institutional IP range, be sure to access Best Practice via your institution's referral URL or library portal.
- Download the free DynaMed Plus App from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Create an account and start searching
- Harrison's Manual of Medicine This link opens in a new window
Derived from Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, this popular reference delivers fast, to-the-point guidance on the clinical problems seen in everyday practice. This title focuses on diagnosis and therapy with an emphasis on patient care. It offers high-yield coverage of etiology, signs and symptoms, physical examination, laboratory findings, and practice guidelines.
For mobile access:
- Download the free UCentral app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access Harrison's Manual of Medicine via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Mobile link at the top toolbar of the resulting page. First time users can register for an account. Once you register, you can log in to use mobile or to personalize your web experience.
- Using the login information you created when you registered, login to the app on your device.
- Johns Hopkins ABX Guide This link opens in a new window
The Johns Hopkins ABX Guide features evidenced-based information on the treatment of infectious diseases to help make decisions at the point of care. This comprehensive mobile resource organizes details of diagnosis; drug indications, dosing, pharmacokinetics, side effects and interactions; pathogens; management; and vaccines into easily accessible, quick-read entries.
For mobile access:
- Download the free UCentral app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access Johns Hopkins ABX Guide via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Mobile link at the top toolbar of the resulting page. First time users can register for an account. Once you register, you can log in to use mobile or to personalize your web experience.
- Using the login information you created when you registered, login to the app on your device.
- Micromedex This link opens in a new window
Micromedex is a collection of many different drug databases, including Martindale, the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR), DRUGDEX, DISEASEDEX, POISONDEX, and several alternative medicine databases. Drugs can be searched by trade name, generic name, or “street” name. Information on drug indication, dosage, drug interaction and side effects and poison control information can be found in Micromedex. It covers all FDA approved medications as well as a database of alternative medicines.
For mobile access:
- Download the free Micromedex app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access Micromedex via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Download Center link in the upper right hand corner of the resulting page
- Follow the instructions found on the resulting page. Passwords needed to access the various apps included in the OHSU Library's Micromedex subscription are included here.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
This evidence-based point-of-care resource includes continuously updated information, based on the best available evidence in nursing, allied health, and biomedical literature, written specifically for nurses to help answer clinical questions. Includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills, and more. It also contains cultural competencies, patient education, drug information, and reference books, guidelines, core measures, legal cases, and research instruments.
For mobile access:
NOTE: If you have the Nursing Reference Center app installed on your device, you must uninstall it before installing the Nursing Reference Center Plus app.
- Download the free Nursing Reference Center Plus App from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
- Access Nursing Reference Center Plus via the OHSU Library.
- Click on the NRC Plus Mobile App Access link from Nursing Reference Center Plus at the bottom of the page and enter your email address. An authentication key will be emailed to you.
- Open the Nursing Reference Center Plus email from your device.
Within 24 hours, tap on the link in the email to authenticate the app.
Note: If the app is not authenticated after 24 hours, you will need to request a new authentication key.
- UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Provides evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions in clinical practice. Designed to provide concise information needed at the point of care.
For mobile access:
- Download the free mobile app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Access UpToDate via the OHSU Library
- Click on the Log In/Register link on the resulting page. First time users can register for an account to use on a mobile device or to use the CME feature.
- Once you register, you can login to the app using the UpToDate username and password you created from step #3 above.
PLEASE NOTE: You will occasionally be asked to re-verify your affiliation with OHSU. You will need to use your UpToDate username and password.
- VisualDx This link opens in a new window
Differential diagnosis tool with images and point of care information to aid in the identification of visually identifiable diseases.
For mobile access:
- Launch VisualDx at your institution and click "VisualDx Mobile" on the right-hand side.
- Click "Create a Personal VisualDx Account" and fill out the form as instructed.
- Once you have a username and password, you can download the free VisualDx Mobile app on your mobile device from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
- Launch the VisualDx app from your device and sign in using the username and password you created.
- Last Updated: Apr 4, 2023 12:51 PM
- URL: https://libguides.ohsu.edu/mobile
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