The Agency for Healthcare Research ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has unraveled a clinical decision-support tool for personal digital assistants (PDAs) that is designed to help physicians deliver evidence-based medicine when they are with a patient. The "Interactive Preventive Services Selector" tool is available for download from the AHRQ Web site at http://pda.ahrq.gov/index.html.

The tool can help physicians quickly and easily search for which preventive services to provide or not provide to patients based upon their age and gender. The tool is based onward the latest recommendations from the U Preventive Services Task Force, and will be updated with recent recommendations each time the PDA is synchronized.

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