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  1. Franklin Sease, MD
  1. UPMC St Margaret Sports Medicine
 Lawrenceville Family Health Center
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.8.6.167

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      InfoRetriever is designed to provide access to literature at the point of care for primary care physicians. The database operates on 3 platforms: PocketPC, PalmOS, and Windows. This review is based on my experience with the PalmOS version.

      The core of the product is the POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters) database and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews abstracts. The POEMs database was developed by 5 family physicians and includes succinct summaries and practical recommendations based on the latest evidence. These are supplemented by summaries of practice guidelines and an electronic version of the popular textbook, 5-Minute Clinical Consult.1 Also included are clinical decision rules, diagnostic test …

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