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Epocrates Essentials Deluxe Features

Epocrates Essentials Deluxe provides integrated drug, disease, and lab information, decision support tools, and practice resources in one continually updated, user-friendly application.

Read on to learn about features and content.

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Benefits

Epocrates products have been demonstrated to:

Improve patient care and safety
Save time
Reduce administrative burden
Enable confident clinical decisions

Our information is developed by healthcare professionals, and specifically formatted for mobile devices and the web.

Drug Information

Instantly access drug prescribing and safety information for more than 3,300 brand and generic drugs

Search for a drug by name or class, and then review:

Adult and pediatric dosing for FDA-approved and off-label indications, with links from the indications to the Dx tab, and from the dose to an integrated weight-based dosing calculator, where applicable
Black box warnings, contraindications, and cautions
Serious and common adverse reactions and drug interactions (organized by clinical category)

Drug Information (continued)

Safety and monitoring information, such as pregnancy risk categories, lactation safety ratings, monitoring parameters and therapeutic drug levels
Manufacturer information, approximate retail pricing, and FDA/DEA status
Pharmacology information, including metabolism, excretion (i.e., half-life), drug class, and mechanism of action
Notes section for your personal notes

Alternative Medicines

Reference authoritative information on herbal supplements your patients may be taking.

Information on more than 600 alternative medicines includes:

Reported uses and doses
Interactions with prescription drugs
Cautions
Pregnancy and lactation safety
Adverse reactions
Synonyms

Drug Interactions and IV Compatibility

There are some things you just can’t do in your head!

The powerful MultiCheck feature enables you to check for interactions among as many as 30 drugs and alternative medicines at a time.

Potential interactions are organized by clinical category to help you determine the appropriate action.

Plus, our IV compatibility checker gives you easy access to compatibility data sourced from the King® Guide – determine drug-solution (or drug-drug-solution) compatibility among 1-30 drugs and IV products.

Formulary Information

Epocrates Rx contains up-to-date, detailed formulary information for national and regional healthcare insurance formularies, including all Medicare Part D plans, and provides easy access to therapeutic alternatives.

Download the insurance formularies you use most often.
Quickly check to see which drugs are covered.
Find plan-specific details on:
- Copay tiers
- Prior authorization requirements
- Quantity limits
- Step-therapy guidelines
Search for preferred therapeutic alternatives.

Disease Information

Access diagnostic and treatment information for hundreds of diseases and conditions.

Epocrates Dx disease diagnosis and therapeutic content is sourced from 5-Minute Clinical Consult.

Search by diagnosis or system for:

Signs/Symptoms and Diagnosis (inc. differential diagnosis)
Recommended medications (tap on a drug to go to the associated drug monograph)
Treatment information, including patient education
Basics (e.g., description, risk factors) and Causes
ICD-9 codes
And much more

Symptom Assessment

Search Epocrates Dx by signs and symptoms.

The Epocrates Sx symptom assessment tool, developed in collaboration with the “Massachusetts General Hospital's Laboratory of Computer Science”, uses a unique set of algorithms to provide the most clinically useful diagnosis index to the Epocrates Dx disease reference.

Enter patient's gender, age, and duration of symptoms (optional).
Look up your patient's signs and symptoms.

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Generate lists of common and rare diagnoses within Epocrates Dx, organized by likelihood.
Refine your search with additional findings.
Select a diagnosis to jump to the related disease monograph.

Epocrates ID

Obtain treatment guidelines for hundreds of infectious diseases

Search by body system, bug, or drug
Access empiric and specific treatment recommendations in seconds
Tap on a drug name to link to the drug monograph

Lab Test Information

Get help with lab preparation, interpretation, and next steps.

Epocrates Lab includes information on hundreds of tests and panels, including:

Interpretation (based on high/low abnormal value) — differential diagnosis of drug, disease, and spurious causes with links to drug and disease information
Follow-up recommendations and clinical comments
Basics
Normal reference ranges
Preparation/Collection
Pricing and associated ICD-9 codes

Medical Dictionary

Instantly look up more than 100,000 medical terms on your mobile device. The Epocrates Medical Dictionary is sourced from Stedman's Medical Dictionary 28th Edition.

Reference succinct definitions for more than 100,000 medical terms, prefixes and suffixes, eponyms, procedures, and protocols
Review usage information, abbreviations, and synonyms
Find answers fast – the Epocrates lookup searches for a match as soon as you start entering the term

Coder

Get paid for what you do! The Epocrates Coder is a complete guide to more than 20,000 ICD-9 and CPT® codes.

Select the ICD-9 or CPT tab and look up a code in any of these three easy ways:

Enter part of the code
Enter part of the diagnosis/procedure name
Drill down by category

Plus, save frequently looked up codes to a list of Favorites.

CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.

My Epocrates

Personalize your Epocrates application.

It’s easy to tailor Epocrates Essentials to suit your needs. For example:

Create shortcuts to your favorite features
View your Rx lookup history
Add the free MedTools applications you need most
Add your own notes to a monograph
Receive CME courses and DocAlert messages in your selected specialties
Change your default screen, e.g., Default to Peds Dosing

Additional Tools

Additional references and tools to help you every day include:

Clinical Tables and Guidelines

More than 60 quick references to diverse clinical topics, including Endocarditis Prophylaxis, vaccination schedules, and ACLS/PALS guidelines

MedMath

More than 30 useful medical calculators, including BMI, Peak Flow, and Creatinine Clearance

MedTools applications

Choose the free decision support tools you need most at the point of care

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MobileCME activities

Earn CME/CE credits or just learn something new on the go.

Medical News

Medical and practice news in your specialty, delivered to you when you sync

AutoUpdate

The Epocrates Medical Information editors continually update Epocrates databases to ensure you have the most current information available, including: