From: A Systematic Review of Healthcare Applications for Smartphones
Application | Version (price) | Platforms | Description | Functions |
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PubSearch URL35[51] | 1.6 (free) | iOS | An application for medical literaturesearches from PubMed. | Searches PubMed; display search results; sort byauthors, title, journal or year; display article’sabstract; bibliographic entry. |
2.6 ($2.99) | iOS | A medical literature search toolfor iPhone. | Searches and displays reference information fromPubMed; store references in a searchable personallibrary; email references from within the application;advanced search specifying search field and usinglogic operators; links to full text articles; rememberrecent searches; navigation between references. | |
2.1 (free) | Palm OS,Windows CE,Windows Mobile | An application that retrieves MEDLINEcitations through Internet connections. | Searches using 3 search engines: PubMed, Essie,and Google; previous query history; save citationsas text file; take notes; cluster search results; relatedarticles; auto spell check; links to full-text article. | |
(free) | Web-enabledsmartphone. | A natural language query tool forPubMed/MEDLINE developedby the NLMf. | Searches PubMed by entering natural languagequery; spell checker; handles query in the form ofquestions or complex phrases; MeSH spelleravailable in “MeSH Speller + askMEDLINE” programthat is an extension of askMEDLINE. | |
(free) | Web-enabledsmartphone. | A Patient, Intervention, Comparisonand Outcome (PICO) search interfacefor PubMed/MEDLINE developedby the NLMf. | Includes 4 text fields: problem, intervention,compare to, and outcome. | |
DiseaseAssociations URL40[45] | (free) | Web-enabledsmartphone. | A search interface for case reports andreview of reported cases inPubMed/MEDLINE developed by NLMf. | Includes three text entry fields: (1) two text fieldsfor sign, symptom, disease, condition, or procedurejoined with AND operator, (2) one text entryassociated with that disease, condition, or procedure. |