Clinical Tools / Websites
This page contains links and information regarding useful clinical tools that are found on other websites and on cell phone apps.
Websites
- Framingham Risk Score – Risk Assessment Tool for Estimating Your 10-year Risk of Having a Heart Attack
- PROCAM
- Reynolds Risk Score
- Heart Risk Calculator – Incorporates guidelines from JNC 8 for blood pressure management
- TIMI Risk Score – Estimates mortality for patients with unstable angina and non-ST elevation MI
- AST to Platelet Ratio Index (APRI) Calculator – predicting cirrhosis
- Child-Turcotte – Pugh Calculator – severity of cirrhosis
- MELD Score – predicts survival for patients with advanced liver disease
- Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Risk Calculator
- Pulmonary Embolism Risk by PISA Study
- Lung Cancer Risk Prediction Calculator
- Community-acquired pneumonia severity index (PSI) for adults
- FRAX (Fracture Risk Assessment Tool) – prediction tool for assessing an individual's risk of fracture
- DASH – measure physical function and symptoms in patients with any or several musculoskeletal
disorders of the upper limb.
- ALBI – Albumin-bilirubin grade estimate of survival with hepatocellular carcinoma
- Individualized Risk Assessment of Prostate Cancer – Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator
- Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool – estimate a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer
- Breast Cancer Nomogram – predict likelihood of metastasis and DCIS recurrence
- Pancreas Cancer Survival Calculator
- Colon Cancer Survival Calculator
- HAS-BLED Score – predict risk of major bleeding with anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation.
- SPARC – Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Risk Tool. For estimating risk of stroke
and benefits & risks of antithrombotic therapy in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.
- Pretest probability of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (4-T's score)
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes Risk Assessment Calculator – use to predict long-term outcome in MDS
- Absolute Neutrophil Count
- Creatinine Clearance Calculator – for adjustment of medications ex: antibiotics
- FeNA – Fractional Excretion of Sodium – for assessment of pre-renal vs intrinsic renal states
- FeUrea - Fractional Excretion of Urea – for assessment of renal state in patients on diuretics
- CIWA – Clinical Institute for Withdrawal of Alcohol Assessment scale
- Physicians Handbook on Certification of Medical Death – filling out death certificates accurately
- PPS – Palliative Performance Scale – correlates actual and median survival for palliative
patients
Medical Apps
- Medscape
- UpToDate
- Hopkins Guide
- Epocrates
- Merck Manual
- MedCalc
- LabGear
- Figure 1
- ASCVD Risk Estimator
- MedPulse
- Read
- QuantiaMD
- USMLEWorld
- Prognosis
- iCXR ACP Immunization Advisor
- ePSS (Electronic Preventive Services Selector)
- This app is based on USPSTF recommendations, which can be searched by specific patient characteristics; by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality