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EBM apps that help you search for answers to your clinical questions
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  1. Donna Windish
  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Primary Care Residency Program, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
  1. Correspondence to : Dr Donna Windish
    , Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Primary Care Residency Program, 64 Robbins Street, Waterbury, CT 06708, USA; donna.windish{at}yale.edu

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In the age of smartphones and tablets, it has become commonplace to find apps that help you do or find almost anything. The quality and breadth of medical apps has improved greatly in recent years. You can now find medical apps that recreate textbooks, search for current articles, calculate likelihood ratios and find point-of-care answers to clinical questions. This article describes and reviews apps aimed at helping clinicians search for evidence to support the practice of EBM.

https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2013-101623

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    In the age of smartphones and tablets, it has become commonplace to find apps that help you do or find almost anything. The quality and breadth of medical apps has improved greatly in recent years. You can now find medical apps that recreate textbooks, search for current articles, calculate likelihood ratios and find point-of-care answers to clinical questions. This article describes and reviews apps aimed at helping clinicians search for evidence to support the practice of EBM.

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