Medical Library Services: Labs, Tests, Calculators

This Library Guide is designed to primarily support the College of Medicine Curriculum. You will also be able to easily access resources from both the Mt. Pleasant and Saginaw libraries for the CMU College of Medicine! URL: https://libguides.cmich.edu/CMEDlibraries

Labs, Tests, Calculators

Several of our medical resources have separate logins depending on your location.

If you have a CMU Global ID and password, please use the CMU options from the links below.
If you are affiliated with Covenant HealthCare or Ascension St. Mary's and do not have a Global ID, please use the Knowledge Services options from the links below.
Freely available or open access resources require no logins and can be accessed from the links below.

Databases

ClinicalKey Clinical Calculators
Includes Drug Calculators, Clinical Criteria/Decision Trees Calculators, Medical Calculators, and Unit Conversions Calculators
DynaMed Plus Calculators
Medical equations, clinical criteria, decision trees, statistics calculators, units and dose converters, and more from DynaMed Plus.
EBMcalc
EBMcalc is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. EBMcalc encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.
UptoDate Calculators
A list of calculators organized by medical disciplines and subject areas.

EBMcalc
EBMcalc is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. EBMcalc encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.

ACP Reference Ranges
American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting
MDCalc
A free medical reference for clinical decision tools and content used by over 1.75 million medical professionals globally, including more than 65% of US physicians, every month.
Medscape Calculators
Sorted alphabetically by medical subject area from Medscape, part of the WebMD network.
Merck Manual Clinical Calculators
Organized alphabetically by medical subject area from the Merck Manual Professional Version.
Merck Manuals Normal Laboratory Values
Reference values (intervals) for blood, urine, CSF, stool, and other fluids (eg, gastric acid) and commonly used panels are included. (Note: The reference values provided in these tables should be used as guidelines only.)

EVIDENCE-BASED RESOURCES

These resources have been judged to be evidence-based. For more, please see the evidence-based pyramid on the Evidence-Based Medicine Research Guide.

Clinical Checklist Lab Advisor & DrugPoints System (CMU)

Books and eBooks

Caffey's Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging (13th edition)
Publication Date: 2019
Coley BD
Chapman and Nakielny's Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (7th edition)
Publication Date: 2020
Rafiee H
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination (11th edition)
Publication Date: 2020
Suneja M, LeBlond RF, Brown DD, Szot JF
Ferri's Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging (4th edition)
Publication Date: 2019
Ferri FF
Guide to Diagnostic Tests (7th edition)
Publication Date: 2017
Nicoll D, Lu CM, McPhee SJ
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (23rd edition)
Publication Date: 2017
McPherson RA, Pincus MR
Laposata's Laboratory Medicine: Diagnosis of Disease in the Clinical Laboratory (3rd edition)
Publication Date: 2019
Laposata M
Primer of Diagnostic Imaging (6th edition)
Publication Date: 2019
Harisinghani MG, Chen JW, Weissleder R
Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics (6th edition)
Publication Date: 2018
Rifai N

Ferri's Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging (4th edition)
Publication Date: 2019
Ferri FF
Guide to Diagnostic Tests (7th edition)
Publication Date: 2017
Nicoll D, Lu CM, McPhee SJ
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (23rd edition)
Publication Date: 2017
McPherson RA, Pincus MR
Laposata's Laboratory Medicine Diagnosis of Disease in Clinical Laboratory (3rd edition)
Publication Date: 2018
Laposata M
Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics (6th edition)
Publication Date: 2018
Rifai N

Clinical Calculations: With Applications to General and Specialty Areas (8th edition)
Call Number: RS57 .K44 2017
Kee JL, Marshall SM
Clinical Laboratory Chemistry (2nd edition)
Call Number: RB40 .S85 2018
Sunheimer R, Graves L
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (23rd edition)
Call Number: RB37 .C54 2017
McPherson RA, Pincus MR
Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology (7th edition)
Call Number: QR67 .C64 2017
Koneman E, Procop GW
Lab Values: Everything You Need to Know about Laboratory Medicine and Its Importance in the Diagnosis of Diseases
Call Number: RB38.2 .A63 2018
Andersson D
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference (13th edition)
Call Number: RT48.5 .P34 2017
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ, Pagana TN
Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
Call Number: RJ51 .L3 J66 2017
Jones PM, Bennett MJ, Dietzen DJ, Haymond S

Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2018
Call Number: RC55 .F383 2018 (Main and St. Mary's)
Ferri FF
Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests (6th edition)
Call Number: RB38.2 .P34 2018 (Main)
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ

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