Highest Rated Review by the Community
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May 31 '00
Pros: Free, monthly updates, excellent drug information for professionals, small size
Cons: some competition with ePocket Pharmacopea
Summary: I've been using this for 3 years now (basically since near the end of third year medical school). I've stopped carrying my Pocket Pharmacopea now with the updates to epocrates. ePocrates qRx is a work in progress by a group of programmers, physicians, ... read more
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Feb 10 '01
Pros: Practical, high degree of utility,
Free
Cons: No pediatric dosing
Completeness lacking
as other drug books PDR, Physician's Handbook
Summary: Wonderful, easy to use program that can be easily updated
when hot synched to the computer. The program provides al alphabetized list of medications both in generic and brand name form. The program gives you the dosages of each medication as well ... read more
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Jan 19 '01
Pros: Easy to use and free!
Cons: No Macintosh Autoupdate!
Summary: I recently got a Handspring Visor and immediately downloaded ePocrates qRx. As a resident physician, I find myself looking for "just in time" information when I have a question. I used to find this sort of information by carrying books in my white ... read more
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Jan 02 '01
Pros: Free, fast, small, easy, reliable, up-to-date
Cons: None!
Summary: As a general practitioner, the most important subject for using a PDA software would be about patient. I could say that only drug dosage, indication and some serious warning would be enough. I've ever used Physician Drug Handbook (PDH) before and found ... read more
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Jun 05 '00
Pros: FREE! Very detailed information dbase
Cons: Takes time initially to set up...
Summary: I was made aware of this software by one of my surgery attendings. He noticed during clinic that I had a PalmPilot, and he showed me on his PalmPilot how epocrates worked. I was quite amazed by the amount of detail this drug database contained. And, I ... read more
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Feb 20 '00
Pros: Well organized, fast, free
Cons: times out
Summary: I've used Lexi drugs on another platform: Epocrates is clearly superior.
Layout:
The main screen allows alpha searches by name or class.
Each monograph is divided into adult dosing, pediatric dosing, contraindications, ... read more
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Feb 19 '00
Pros: cost (free), ease of use, updated often, includes all essential information for ward use
Cons: no OTC meds, registration requires divulging personal data
Summary: Nowadays, it is extremely rare to find a product for the Palm OS that is free. Compared to LexiDrugs ($69) and Physican's Drug Handbook ($75.00)and the PDR (really expensive!), Epoqrates stands out because it is 100% FREE! Not to mention, that I find ... read more
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Nov 12 '04
Pros: good software, updates available
Cons: painful download, slower even than microsoft
Summary: Although the epocrates software is quite nice, the updates and initial download are PAINFULLY slow. I can not really recommend this product to anyone who doesn't want to spend hours of time, than being dropped to start all over again. Have raised these
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