OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of using an audiovisual animation (ie, digital video)
displayed on a personal digital assistant (PDA) for patient education in a clinical setting …

Community pharmacists are a valuable information resource for patients and other
healthcare providers. The advent of new information technology, most notably the Internet …

Objective: Clinicians are increasingly using handheld computers (HC) during patient care.
We sought to assess the role of HC-based clinical reference software in medical practice by …

Background In this era of evidence-based medicine, doctors are increasingly using
information technology to acquire medical knowledge. This study evaluates how residents …

Study Objectives. To evaluate personal digital assistant (PDA) drug information databases
used to support clinical decision‐making, and to compare the performance of PDA …

Background Kampo medicine is widely used in Japan; however, most physicians and
pharmacists have insufficient knowledge and experience in it. Although a chatbot-style …

Purpose: To determine if using personal digital assistants (PDAs) increased accuracy and
efficiency of clinical decisions made by novice nurse practitioners (NPs). Design …

The execution of digital techniques in the medical field can improve public healthcare
flexibility and accessibility. It incorporates the availability of open reports about treatment …

The presence of a pharmacist on clinical rounds as a member of a multidisciplinary team
has been associated with a substantially lower rate of adverse drug events (ADEs). 1 Critical …

Background PDAs are hand-held electronic (battery-operated) devices with memory cards.
Memory cards are information storage units. Sophisticated PDAs have photo …