Features and Resources

• More than 6,500 original, peer-reviewed clinical articles
  • Covering 13 specialty and 59 subspecialty categories
  • Comprehensive, yet succinct clinical review of the condition in each article
    
• Rigorous Peer Review Process
  • 4-level physician peer review
  • PharmD review of all drugs
    
• Content is updated continuously
  • 24/7 updating ensures that information is current and reflects the most recent advances and news
    
• Nearly 10,000 authors and editors from top universities and hospitals
  • Department chairs, deans, and editors of prestigious academic institutions and journals
  • Major institutions in the United States, Canada, and 30 other countries
    
• Multimedia Library
  • More than 30,000 illustrations, images, MPEGs, and photographs provide reference images for many conditions
  • May be used in presentations and lectures
    
• ZOOM® Image Enhancement Tool
  • Interactive enlargement of our images to see every detail
  • The same technology that allows satellites to take highly detailed images of items on the ground
    
• Drug Tables
  • Includes more than 1,200 agents
  • A separate table for every drug shown in the text
  • Adult and pediatric dosing, contraindications, alerts and more
    
• Clinical eTools
  • Interactive algorithms, calculators, decision rules, diagrams, and scores
  • Save time and money during the diagnostic process
    
• Differential Diagnosis Generator
  • Generate a list of conditions to consider
  • Enter up to 5 keywords, signs, or findings
  • Invaluable in difficult cases
    
• LookItMed™ Search Engine
  • Features Stedman’s Medical Dictionary®
  • Simply highlight a word and the definition appears, along with additional topics within the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base
  • Includes links to relevant abstracts on PubMed
    
• Simple and advanced search queries -- for articles, images, or drugs
  • Keyword or Boolean search routines
  • Alphabetical listings of all eMedicine articles
  • Search drugs by brand or generic name
  • Search by SNOMED
    
• Use of word mapping or SNOMED codes
  • Streamlines search for relevant content
    
• LinkItMed
  • Seamless link to your existing full-text article service
    
• Resource Centers
  • Specialist-written articles, CME/CE, multimedia, and patient education grouped by topic
  • Bioterrorism Resource Center developed in cooperation with leading military experts
    
• Patient Education Topics
  • More than 650 patient education topics, written in collaboration with physicians and medical writers to ensure readability
    
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Program
  • Ongoing user survey process and feedback to authors ensures ongoing improvement of the material
    
• Print formatting
  
• Optional PDA downloads
  
• Optional wireless functions
  
• Optional CME/CE for physicians and other healthcare professionals
  
• User-selectable e-mail updates, cases, and newsletters
  
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