Infectious Disease Compendium app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
224 ratings )
Health & Fitness
Medical
Developer:
Pusware LLC
5.99 USD
Current version:
10.1.0, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 24 Feb 2010
App size: 33.13 Mb
A hyperlinked guide to Infectious Diseases. Find us on Facebook and Twitter!
Over 600 pages of information on antibiotics, organisms and diseases.
Intended as a quick reference for non-infectious disease practitioners.
Updated monthly from the literature.
References link to Pubmed or primary sources.
Add your own notes linked to the topics. Mark entries as "Favorites" for quick reference.
Written over 10 years by a practicing board certified Infectious Disease doctor, a 2010 USNews and World Report Top US Doctor and the producer of the Puscast, a bimonthly podcast update of the ID literature and a Gobbet o Pus, both available on iTunes.
$5.99 (less than a penny a page) gets you the years edition and updates for life (my life, not yours).
Curious but undecided? All the content can be found for free, yes free, at http://www.edgydoc.com (requires a modern HTML5 compliant browser: most recent versions of Safari, Chrome or Firefox.
Reviews for the Uncertain:
- Medical App Journal: 4 Stars
"BOTTOM LINE: The Infectious Disease Persiflager’s Guide is an entertaining and engaging overview of infectious diseases, which is well suited for practicing clinicians and public health researchers. The content appears accurate and is highly referenced, although some sections seem to be pending future updates. The affordable price seems well worth the assimilation of current medical content and experience-based knowledge from a practicing expert in the field.
http://medicalappjournal.com/review_editorial.php?appsname=Infectious+Disease+Compendium%3A+A+Persiflager%27s+Guide
- Mobile Infectious Disease References: From the Bedside to the Beach. Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"The Infectious Diseases Compendium would be perfect for students and residents to review treatment options prior to staffing a consultation with the attending physician or while admitting patients to a medical or surgical service."
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/114.full
Pros and cons of Infectious Disease Compendium app for iPhone and iPad
Infectious Disease Compendium app good for
Useful and inexpensive infections diseases app. Simple as that.
As Mark indicates, less than a penny per page. Well worth it, especially for non ID docs.
If you have listened to even one Gobbet o pus then make the purchase.
ER Doc: use it all the time. Cheeky, informative, well-linked between topics and quickly searchable. My go-to ID resource for individual pathogens and ID problems that present infrequently. Mark, your efforts are much appreciated.
This app, by far, is the best ID handbook/app Ive ever seen/used. Very well organized with just the right amount of information. Any time Ive looked something up about a bug/infection/treatment in this app, Ive been able to get an answer in less than a minute. I hope the developer (an ID doc) keeps this project going for a long time to come!
I am a Canadian emergency physician. This app has been my go to for a long time now. It is like having a friendly, knowledgeable, and most importantly surly, ID doc available at all times to answer my dumbest questions. It is well worth more than the asking price and I highly recommend it to all of my friends and colleagues.
There should be more apps like this around.
...and bravado? Yes. This app is generally great with hard links to scientific papers. But I am somewhat intelligent and dont always get the authors jokes, quips and slang. I am also surprised he bothers to react negatively - get on a soap box in the app - to denigrate alternative health practitioners...as if his side of his mistakenly constructed either/or argument about practices and modalities is godly and as if everyone elses is stupid. He is blind to the fact his diagnostic approach is "alternative" to some in family medicine. And he would do well to realize the world isnt so black and white. If not colorful to match his over-the-top lingo, medical practices are at least many shades of gray these days. Maybe 50 or more.
Some bad moments
Doesnt run on iPhone 3G.. Ive tried deleting, reinstalling, deleting, redownloading... I get the opening screen and then nothing.
A great app!!
We teach residents & students here in the Canadian Western Arctic.
I have shared with them the antibiotics use rant--food for thought, for sure!
Humour appreciated as well.
Cheers & keep up the good work,
Dr. Leah Seaman
Inuvik, NWT
I purchased this thinking that it would be a quick reference for bugs and drugs - it was quite disappointing to find that it is a opinion based app and really I am not sure how credible it is - unsuitable for my needs and not worth the money!
It doesnt work and nobody tells me why. The start page appears only and nothing else.
Now its OK. It works.
Not so good: the list of disease ends at "peritonitis". And pneumonia? If you search it youll find it but the file is empty.
The worst application Ive bought.
App opens --> drugs and bugs listed --> upon selecting medication or bacteria section opens however description is blank for every Med and bug.
I was pretty upset by the amount of typos because I had high hopes for this app. If there are typos everywhere, is the information wrong, too?
