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Lab Values and Tests

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Health Calculators
Created by the Medical College of Wisconsin, the tools provided on this site include the LDL Cholesterol Goal Level Calculator and the Creatinine Calculator.
MEDLINEPlus: Laboratory Tests
Consumer focused health information regarding lab values and test procedures.

Point-of-Care Resources

BMJ Best Practice
A point of care tool from BMJ Best Practice designed to support clinicians in their decision making from diagnosis to treatment.

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DynaMed Plus is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool for physicians and other medical professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. It contains overviews, recommendations, specialty topics, drug information, graphics and images, direct links to article references in full text, and mobile access. It is updated multiple times daily to insure currency. Integrated Micromedex content provides resources to help better inform prescription decisions, medication management strategies and treatment decisions as a result of lab tests in the course of patient care.

Essential Evidence Plus
An evidence-based medicine clinical decision support tool. EE+ features over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the common conditions, diseases, and procedures. Every recommendation has a strength-of-evidence rating. EE+ links extensively to abstracts of Cochrane Systematic Reviews.
Up-to-Date
Clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 200 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. The content is peer reviewed and fully referenced. On-campus use only.

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VisualDx is a diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. It can be used to build patient-specific differentials and conduct searches by disease, medication, skin pigmentation and more.

Textbooks

Clinical Laboratory Methods: Atlas of Commonly Performed Tests by Michael Laposata; Peter McCaffrey
ISBN: 9781260470284
Publication Date: 2022-03-17
"Clinical Laboratory Methods covers the 100 tests most often done in clinical labs. The description of each method covers the basic concept of the assay; clinically important information; the expense of the test (based cost of the reagents, supplies, and labor); the complexity of the test; and whether each method is manual, semi-automated, or highly automated, and each method includes a flowchart."
Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Seventh Edition by Diana Nicoll; Chuanyi Mark Lu; Stephen J. McPhee
ISBN: 9781259640896
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
"The essential guide to more than 450 of the most commonly performed diagnostic tests - updated with the latest molecular, genetic, and microbiological tests."
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods by Richard A. McPherson; Matthew R. Pincus
ISBN: 9780323673204
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
"Employing a multidisciplinary approach, [Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods] provides cutting-edge coverage of automation, informatics, molecular diagnostics, proteomics, laboratory management, and quality control, emphasizing new testing methodologies throughout."
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures by Cynthia C. Chernecky; Barbara J. Berger
ISBN: 9781455706945
Publication Date: 2012-11-20
"Find complete answers to questions such as which laboratory tests to order or what the results might mean...[updated] content includes the latest research relating to accuracy of tests, diagnostic value of results, and associated cost-benefit ratios."
Laposata's Laboratory Medicine Diagnosis of Disease in Clinical Laboratory Third Edition by Michael Laposata
ISBN: 9781260116793
Publication Date: 2018-12-25
"Laboratory Medicine is an essential text for medical students and residents studying clinical pathology, medical technology students, and for practitioners working in a clinical setting."
Tietz Textbook of Laboratory Medicine by Nader Rifai
ISBN: 9780323775724
Publication Date: 2022-06-06
"Comprehensive coverage includes the latest advances in topics such as clinical chemistry, genetic metabolic disorders, molecular diagnostics, hematology and coagulation, clinical microbiology, transfusion medicine, and clinical immunology."