Nursing/Medical
Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER)
PIER is a database where you can find evidence-based guidance to improve clinical care. Structured in a layered format, PIER modules are designed to allow you to drill down from more general to specific, targeted information, with immediate access to underlying supporting evidence from the medical literature. Modules are:
- Diseases: Modules for more than 345 diseases (with new modules added on a continual basis), structured uniformly to facilitate the clinical workflow, are PIER's core. Each module presents a series of succinct guidance statements and practice recommendations, supported by more detailed levels of pertinent rationale and evidence.
- Screening and Prevention; Best evidence to support rational use of screening and prevention measures in healthy people.
- Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Overview of the harms and benefits of CAM modalities used in the management of common medical problems.
- Ethical and Legal Issues: Background and guidance in approaching common legal and ethical dilemmas that arise in daily practice.
- Procedures: Details of commonly ordered diagnostic and therapeutic tests and interventions.
- Drug Resource: Comprehensive, clinically-relevant, real-time drug information from Clinical Pharmacology, including all U.S. prescription drugs, as well as hard-to-find coverage of herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products.