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Health & Medicine : Tests/Lab Diagnosis

Core Resources

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Other Resources Online

Other Resources Online for Tests/Lab Diagnosis
DPDx Identification and Diagnosis of Parasites of Public Health Concern Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Users can browse through concise reviews of parasites and parasitic diseases, including an image library and a review of recommended procedures for collecting, shipping, processing, and examining biologic specimens.

Health Guide A-Z: Medical Tests
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Information about medical tests designed for health consumers and patients. Normal lab values are presented along with information about how to prepare for tests and results interpretation.

Lab Tests Online
http://www.labtestsonline.org
  
Produced by laboratory professional societies, this site provides descriptions of laboratory tests including interpretation information. The site also includes a list of conditions and diseases along with the tests that are typically used in the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions and diseases.

Medical Algorithms Project Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Contains 1,000 formulas and algorithms spanning major medical domains, organized into 43 chapters. To ensure the widest possible audience, the algorithms have been implemented in an Excel workbook which Windows or Macintosh computer. You will need MS Excel, and should be familiar with running spreadsheets.

Online Clinical Calculator Available only from within the Health Sciences Library.
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc.html
  
Compute anion gap, creatinine clearance, test sensitivity and specificity, and more. From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.

eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Tests/Lab Diagnosis
AccessMedicine Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Search a collection of over 50 books in clinical medicine and the basic sciences, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, and many more. Click on My AccessMedicine to register for a free password which entitles you to use the Lange self-assessment tool for board preparation, PDA chapter downloads, and podcasts. MyNCBI account holders can link to articles and ordering options via Findit@MU. Please logout when finished searching. To locate more recent articles which cite a referenced article, enter the PMID article Identifier here.

Books@Ovid
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A collection of major medical, nursing and pharmacy reference texts. Titles can be searched individually or as a whole.

Clinician's Pocket Reference Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Ferri's Clinical Advisor Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Jump to fulltext from the table of contents or the index. Resource brought to you by the MAHEC Digital Library. These links take up to a minute to load. Please logout when finished.

Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests ( Fischbach ) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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