Comparison

IDSA Practice Guidelines vs ECG Stat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

IDSA Practice Guidelines

Access and stay updated with the latest clinical guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This app offers interactive tools, search functionality, and the ability to bookmark key information and take notes for healthcare professionals.

Highlights
  • Access clinical guidelines
  • Interactive tools
  • Search guidelines
  • Bookmark pages
  • Take notes
Features
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Access the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines app anytime, anywhere! Download the app today and stay up-to-date on IDSA clinical guidelines, interactive tools, and new resources. The app contains features to search through guidelines, bookmark important pages and take notes on key information. Visit the IDSA app for new guidelines that are released throughout the year and new updates to existing guidelines. Disclaimer: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) provides this app (“App)” for health care professionals only, and not the general public. The App is provided for informational purposes only, and it is not intended to provide medical or treatment advice and may not be treated as such by the user. As such, this App may not be relied upon for the purposes of medical diagnosis or as a recommendation for medical care or treatment. The information on this App is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this App is for general information purposes only.

About

ECG Stat

This educational tool provides healthcare professionals with quick visual references for ECG interpretation. It covers everything from basic waveforms to complex disease manifestations, aiding in rapid recall of critical cardiac information.

Highlights
  • Visual ECG feature explanations
  • Covers ECG basics and disease manifestations
  • Quick lookup for specific conditions
  • Includes waveform visualizations
  • Report discrepancies feature
Features
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ECG or Electrocardiography is one of the most useful clinical tools ever developed in the field of medicine. Learning about ECG is vital for almost every healthcare worker including paramedics, emergency staff, physicians, medical students, residents, and nurses. There are already tons of ECG resources to learn from but repetition is the key and this is the reason I came up with the idea of developing 'ECG Stat'. The app is very simple to use. It contains multiple categories ranging from ECG basics including ECG waveforms, intervals, segments to complicated ECG disease manifestations that users can access within seconds. I'm a strong advocate of visual learning and this is the reason I made sure to visualize every ECG feature in this app. If you search for 'Right bundle branch block', the app will quickly show you the core ECG changes seen in RBBB along with a visualization of those changes. Imagine yourself in a clinical setting where you're trying to recall the features of left atrial enlargement. Instead of googling for changes and then scrolling through thousands of images and search results, you can use the ECG Stat app to quickly look up the core ECG features seen in left atrial enlargement along with waveform changes! I have used multiple sources to create this app which is mentioned in the about section. The app is meant to be used by healthcare workers only. It's an educational tool and discrepancies can be seen. If you do find a mistake, you can easily report it through the contact form. The app is for educational purposes only and should not be solely relied on when it comes to patient care. I have strived to ensure that information contained in the app is accurate and personally created and reviewed all the images.

Screenshots

IDSA Practice Guidelines4 screens
ECG Stat4 screens

Verdict

The call

IDSA Practice Guidelines and ECG Stat both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ECG Stat's written reviews are positive against 0% of IDSA Practice Guidelines's. IDSA Practice Guidelines's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (559 vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

IDSA Practice Guidelines is free to download; ECG Stat costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ECG Stat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IDSA Practice Guidelines has 559 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of IDSA Practice Guidelines's written reviews are positive against 100% of ECG Stat's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
IDSA Practice Guidelines versus ECG Stat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIDSA Practice GuidelinesECG Stat
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (559 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings559 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB15 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperInfectious Diseases Society of AmericaUsama Nasir

Customer experience

IDSA Practice Guidelines

All ratings557 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral0.7%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

ECG Stat

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

IDSA Practice Guidelines

No in-app purchases

None

ECG Stat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IDSA Practice Guidelines free?
IDSA Practice Guidelines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ECG Stat free?
ECG Stat costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, IDSA Practice Guidelines or ECG Stat?
ECG Stat is rated higher. IDSA Practice Guidelines averages 4.8 out of 5 from 559 ratings, while ECG Stat averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do IDSA Practice Guidelines or ECG Stat have ads?
Neither IDSA Practice Guidelines nor ECG Stat shows ads.

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