DynaMed, a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care, has ranked highest among ten online clinical resources in a new study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The resources were evaluated in three areas - timeliness of content updating, breadth of coverage and the quality of evidence reporting.
According to the report, DynaMed consistently ranked near the top of each category.
Clinical point-of-care resources such as DynaMed are seen to be necessary for clinicians to access the best available evidence for thousands of clinical topics. It is updated daily and can be integrated into any EMR system.
DynaMed is used by more than half a million clinicians in over 125 countries. More than 4,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals across 60 specialties contribute to the resource and more than 200,000 medical articles are summarized in DynaMed — providing doctors and other healthcare providers with access to the latest clinical evidence.
DynaMed was also rated highest in its category by healthcare providers in a report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specialises in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. DynaMed also came out on top in a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ study looked at how quickly five point-of-care products updated new evidence.
A study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (J Med Libr Assoc 2011 Jul;99(3):247) tested DynaMed against seven other point-of-care resources with similar results. Also without the knowledge of database publishers, librarians in Texas tested these resources by selecting the top 10 diagnoses and monitored each tool for frequency of updates on these topics.
