PHP 593: Key Tools

View top journals from your field using BrowZine!

•  BrowZine is a browsable newsstand of the library’s top journals. Easily discover, read, and monitor the key journals in your field. 
• Allows the user to browse the most recent issues of a wide array of journals giving you a way to easily stay current on the literature. 
• iPad version provides PDF's which can be saved in a variety of programs such as reference management software, box.com and notability.
• Web Version allows patrons to read articles online from a web browser
• Requires an account to save favorite journals
• Available to University of Rochester students, staff and faculty.

• Navigate to Google Scholar and click on the 3 lines at the top left. 

• Click on Settings 

• Select Library Links 

• Search for University of Rochester and save 

• You can now see links to full text in your Google Scholar search results!

• JBI Critical Appraisal Tools

• EBMcalc

Comprehensive Drug Information

Lexidrug is URMC's drug database. As a point-of-care resource, users can access evidence-based content quickly via desktop or mobile device.

Lexidrug is a collection of content sets and clinical tools that provides users with robust clinical drug information.

Information includes:

• INTERACTIONS Analyze a patient’s entire drug and natural product profile, identify potential interactions, and obtain patient management options.

• DRUG ID - Identify loose or unlabeled medications by searching based on imprint(s), dosage form, color(s), and/or shape. Database includes images of more than 22,000 drug products.
• CALCULATORS - Access more than 130 medical calculators designed to assist you with drug dosing, conversions, drip rate, organ function and more in both adult and pediatric patients.

• TRISSEL’S IV COMPATIBILITY -Determine the compatibility and stability of IV drugs in a wide variety of solutions and combinations with this tool that incorporates content from Trissel’s™ 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database by Lawrence A. Trissel.

• Complete list of content sets and databases inlcuded in Lexidrug. 

App Download Directions

 Lexidrug is a comprehensive clinical drug information provided as part of the University of Rochester's Institutional subscription. 

• Go to Lexidrug and click on the blue button labeled Mobile Access Codes.
• Select platform: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad or Android.
• If you already have a Lexidrug personal account or app installed, choose existing customer.
  If you have not created an account, choose new customer.  
  • Create a personal Lexidrug account  You must register using your URMC e-mail address.
• Now login to your Lexidrug account with the username & password you just created.
• In the Subscriptions section, Add a Subscription by Code,  type or paste the Lexidrug authorization code.  

• On your mobile device, go to app store, download UpToDate Lexidrug and login with your Lexidrug login/password.
• License agreement pops up. Accept.
• Select Automatic Update preference: WiFi only or Wifi and Data; Tap Next.
• Select your Library content preference: I will select the content sets to install; or Download ALL content sets for me; Tap Get Started.
• Select content sets or tap Download ALL.
• After the update is complete, tap the Menu button in the top right corner and tap Home.
• Select an icon to begin accessing your Lexidrug Mobile App subscription.