The newest service on the Ovid database menu is MedWeaver, a clinical decision support tool designed for use by clinicians and other healthcare professionals at the point of care.
MedWeaver’s simple, but powerful, Web-based interface provides clinicians with fast and clinically relevant answers to their diagnostic questions:
- Enter findings and perform a differential diagnosis.
- Review a diagnostic profile of each disease in the differential diagnosis.
- Obtain an explanation for why a disease was included on the differential diagnosis list.
- Perform a powerful, assisted search of the medical literature with Ovid MEDLINE and link to full text articles when available.
- Review available full-text articles in Ovid’s Journals@Ovid from bibliographic citations.
- Explore clinically relevant websites related to each disease.
AISR has subscribed to MedWeaver on a trial basis for one year. Since the QMR program formerly used in resident instruction has been discontinued, MedWeaver is expected to replace its function in graduate medical training. All Jeffersonians will have access to the program, however, and it is available for use in courses or by individuals.
Several clinical products, including PDxMD from MD Consult, DiseaseDex from Micromedex, and ClineGuide from OVID, were reviewed by AISR’s Clinical Advisory Group. MedWeaver’s strength in differential diagnosis was the deciding factor. Throughout the trial period AISR will continue to work with the advisory group on evaluation of the new service.
MedWeaver is a product of Unbound Medicine, derived from Dxplain, the decision support system developed at Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital.
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