Guidelines

It can be difficult to keep track of all the latest evidence-based guidelines. Some commercial tools like InfoRetriever (www.infopoems.com) and Clinical Evidence (www.unboundmedicine.com) do a good job, and are worth trying. But there are also a variety of guidelines in Palm-readable formats available at no charge from other locations, such as:

• C-Tools (Cancer Tools) from the American Cancer Society
• Shots 2005, by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

For other PDA-based guidelines, you can also try the CMA Infobase and the US National Guideline Clearing House, but neither has a great deal of PDA readable material. However, remember that if you can obtain a guideline in Adobe Acrobat or Word format, you can always use the Adobe Acrobat reader for Palm or Documents to go to take them with you; and if you're really keen, you can use a program like iSiloX to convert a web page or document into a PDA-readable ebook. See the Document Reader section for more information.