The Clinical Professionals guide contains general resources used by all clinicians. The USC Libraries link in the upper-left of this page will take you back to the main catalogue if you wish to search for a particular article, title or database.
See also the following Research and Subject Guides:
Synthesized Summaries for Clinical Reference (& see the Evidence Syntheses page):
Other Quick Reference Tools:
Below are two AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tools recommended by one of our family medicine residents and provided here to try. RAG tools attribute and link citations to pre-existing evidence.
See this recent review of how well OpenEvidence performs: Wu V, Casauay J. OpenEvidence. Family Medicine. Published online October 18, 2024. doi:10.22454/FamMed.2024.587513
Safety and Priivacy Note: Accessing AI Chat features through institutional subscriptions that require login access and authentication, such as Microsoft Bing, includes enhanced security and privacy features. Data is not shared or stored or used by OpenAI for training its publicly available models.
Generative AI is experimental. Results may not be reliable, current or comprehensive. AI-generated source citations should be verified and also require the application of your own research, reading and expert judgement to validate the machine-generated rationale. Compare results and ease-of-use with your own clinical knowledge and judgement and with the Quick Reference clinical information summary tools above.
Keck Medical Center of USC subscribes to UpToDate Lexidrugs (formerly Lexi-Comp) and Facts and Comparisons. See also other free, drug apps on the Mobile Resources page.