Guide to Diagnostic Tests vs Washington Manual Bundle App

ABOUT GUIDE TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, provides immediate, evidence-based information on the selection and interpretation of commonly used laboratory and electrocardiographic tests, diagnostic imaging, and therapeutic monitoring. Including more than 450 updated diagnostic tests, this mobile resource is ideal for answering questions encountered daily by physicians, nurses, students, and other healthcare professionals, such as: • Which test is best to diagnose or follow a patient’s condition? • What is the correct interpretation of an abnormal diagnostic test? • How do I collect the appropriate specimen or prepare the patient for testing? • Where can I find more information on this test in the medical literature? FEATURES • 450+ updated laboratory and diagnostic tests • Evidence-based recommendations • New and updated coverage of emerging and re-emerging pathogens and infectious agents • Extensive use of algorithms, tables, and charts • PubMed links directly to journal citations and available articles • Highlight and make custom notes within any entry • Full Text Search – find topics across from any entry • ‘Favorites’ for bookmarking important entries Editors: Diana Nicoll, MD, PhD, MPA; Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD; Stephen J. McPhee, MD Publisher: McGraw Hill Powered by: Unbound Medicine

Your best friend anytime day or night: Skyscape’s Washington Manual Bundle. It contains 5 essential resources curated specifically for your medical residency. Carry all the knowledge you need for those middle-of-the night head-scratchers and crises on your phone or tablet, and be a pro on rounds in the morning. In the middle of the night (and throughout the day), you will be able to find the critical information you need to provide the best care to your patients. And because these are stand-alone apps, you will be able to use them anywhere on your campus, even in the deepest bowels of the hospital where the Wi-Fi just doesn’t reach. Skyscape’s patented SmartSearch technology will help you find the right diagnosis, treatment options, dosage and more faster (and more accurately) than Google or any other online search engine. What you get: * The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics - For over 40 years, the medical intern and resident’s go-to source for answers to clinical questions found on the wards and in the clinic. Short, quick and to the point, it helps you diagnose and treat hundreds of medical conditions with easy-to-read articles and procedure instructions. * DrDrugs®: Drug Guide for Physicians - Always get the right drug for the right patient at the right time with comprehensive coverage on over 1,000 drug monographs, plus 800 built in drug dosing calculation tools. * MobileDDx Differential Diagnosis Tool – Got a head-scratcher? Look it up by signs and symptoms. Based on 4th Edition of Diagnosaurus – is an authoritative, quick reference tool that allows you to explore topics by organ system, symptoms or diseases only, or search across all topics to make accurate, informed and confident differential diagnoses at point of care. * Skyscape Labs™: rapidly obtain a description of the test; understand its clinical utility; understand what a high or low value might mean and how the test can aide in clinical diagnosis and treatment. * Skyscape Clinical Calculator PLUS™: With over 200 preprogrammed medical formulae, the Clinical Calculator includes tools such as glomerular filtration rates, BMI, peak flow, narcotic equivalence, pregnancy dating, syncope decision trees, rules, scoring systems, and hundreds more. Find the calculator you need in just 1-3 clicks in most cases. Skyscape’s Washington Manual Bundle – featuring Washington Manual will be your guiding light in the middle of the night!