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The Hong Kong Practitioner
VOLUME 26 / February 2004
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| What's in the web for
family physicians - clinical tools |
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Medic-8: Clinical Calculators and Medical
E-Tools |
The Medic-8 website hosts a long list of useful clinical tools. These clinical tools offer easy online references for family physicians in their everyday practice. A few useful examples of clinical tools available at the website include: predicted peak expiratory flow of male and female, a well illustrated diagram on Dermatome distribution, the Mini Mental Status Examination, the Geriatric Depression Scale (Koenig) and bedside treatment of benign positional vertigo. |
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| 2. | Colours for the Colour Blind http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/index.html |
Family physicians who do not have a colour
chart for screening of colour blindness in their office should consider
having this website book-marked in your browser. The website has colour
photos of Tests for Colour Blindness. It also lists sharewares for the
colour blind and gives away links to other sites on colour deficiency.
Your patients can now be screened for colour blindness while your computer
is online, and with your browser pointing to this website. It provides
a very handy tool for family physicians conducting medical check-ups. |
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| 3. | MedCalc: Interactive Growth Charts http://medcalc.com/growth/ |
Interactive Growth Charts offers handy
tools for family physicians to tell the growth percentile in height and
weight of a child. At the website, enter the child's age, height and weight;
and a growth chart with the growth percentile of the child will appear.
This offers a valuable reference to tell the parents on how well their
child is nourished. Other clinical tools relating to Fluid and Electrolytes,
Paediatrics and Obstetrics are also available at the website. |
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| 4. | MDChoice.com - Clinical Calculators and Scoring Systems http://www.mdchoice.com/calculators.asp |
The website of MDChoice.com has a section
on useful tools for practicing doctors. Myocardial infarction probability,
Rash diagnosis algorithm, GI bleed complication risk are some of the useful
tools available. The web-page has also a long list of clinical calculators
for different purposes. |
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| 5. | MedIndia.net http://www.medindia.net/home.asp |
The website has a lot of useful health
risk calculators for your patients. The Smoke Risk Calculator gives your
patient his life span loss calculated with his age when smoking started
and the amount he smoked. Nutritional assessment gives hints on nourishment
of a child by entering the height and weight. There are also various other
cardiac tools and nutritional tools available for your patients. All these
tools help to bring more insight to your patients regarding their diet,
nutritional status and cardiovascular risks. |
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| 6. | BNF Extra http://www.bnf.org/BNFExtraCalculatorsFrame.htm |
This popular website has a page on clinical
tools and health calculators of different nature. A few useful examples
include Body Mass Index, the Joint British Societies Cardiac Risk Assessor
Program (which computes coronary heart disease and stroke risk as the
percentage likelihood of an event over a period of 10 years), and the
Body surface area calculated according to the Dubois formula. |
| A K Y Tang, MBBS(HK) Correspondence to : |
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Please note that this and previous editions of "What's in the Web for Family Physicians" are now on the links page of the Web site. All suggested sites are connected by hyperlinks and can be reached by a click of the mouse. |