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Use the "Epocrates Find" feature to search for any part of a drug name

View Follow Up Information for diagnostic tests

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Use the "Epocrates Find" feature to search for part of a drug name

Tip submitted by Judy Fodera, R.N.

How?

All Mobile Software Users:

1. Within the Epocrates application, tap on the Rx tab to view the drug database.
2. Palm users: Tap on the 'e' symbol, then on "Edit" and "Find."
   Pocket PC users: Tap on "Edit" and then "Find."
3. Tap on the drop-down menu and select "Drugs--Name."
4. Enter any part of a drug name and tap "OK."
5. When the progress bar is full, all of the drug matches will be displayed.
6. Tap on a drug name to view the drug monograph.

"I review the homecare nurses' charts prior to printing up the plan of care for our patients. Sometimes the nurses have either misspelled a medication or their penmanship is difficult to read. Before verifying with the pharmacy, doctor or the nurse, I use my Palm to look for the medication. I use the "find" feature to look up any part of the medication. This has come in very handy. Even if the first syllable is wrong, I can search for the rest of the letters in the medication. For  example, I do a seach for "cillin" if I cannot determine what the letters prior to "cillin" are. Then when I call to verify the medication, I can offer clear choices to the pharmacy or doctor. It saves us both a lot of time."
Judy Fodera, R.N.

Note: You can also search by Drugs--Indications,
Drugs--Adverse Reactions, Notes, and many more areas.

View Follow Up Information for diagnostic tests

Get help with your workup — the Epocrates Lab diagnostic reference provides a differential diagnosis of diseases, drugs, and spurious causes for an abnormal result, and you can easily look up follow-up information for many of those diagnoses.

How?

Epocrates Lab/Epocrates Essentials Users:

1. Within the Lab tab, select a lab test.
2. Tap on the drop-down lab monograph menu and select "Interpretation."
3. Select "High" or "Low" result if applicable.
4. In the list of diagnoses, tap on the caret symbol, , next to any disease, drug, or spurious cause, to display the yellow "Follow-up Info" pop-up box.
5. Follow-up information may include links to additional lab and imaging tests, and clinical comments.

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Look up any part of a drug name, e.g., "dox", with the Epocrates Find feature (Palm OS version shown here) ...

... Eight drug names include "dox" — tap on a drug name to launch the monograph.

The follow-up feature in Epocrates Lab provides recommended next steps and clinical comments to assist you in your diagnosis.