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To the Editor: Dr Sackett and colleagues¹ describe an "evidence cart" that they wheel around with them on clinical rounds. We have developed and evaluated a similar system that puts highly valid evidence-based information on a handheld computer. InfoRetriever is a medical reference tool for primary care physicians that runs on the Newton handheld computer (demonstrated and described at http://www.familypractice.msu.edu/retriever.htm). The Newton is a highly portable pen-based computer that weighs 1 lb.² InfoRetriever includes drug information, 270 critical appraisals, 420 systematic reviews from the Cochrane Database, selected practice guidelines, 10 clinical prediction rules, and a Bayesian calculator with information on several hundred tests and physical examination maneuvers.

We performed a pilot project with 7 third-year medical students participating in a rural clerkship in family medicine at Michigan State University's site in Escanaba. Each student was given a Newton handheld computer at the beginning of the clerkship and instructed in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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