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(1) Diagnostic support system -- Search for diagnoses from >500 clinical signs (or go straight to diagnoses)
(2) Citation database -- Selected high quality references with clinical relevance for each diagnosis
(3) Veterinary textbook -- A nifty diagnosis learning tool
Consult is a diagnostic support system for veterinary medicine which updated weekly by the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. It covers roughly 7,000 diagnoses or disease conditions for eight species: avian, bovine, canine, caprine, equine, feline, ovine and porcine. It also functions as an online textbook when searched by diagnosis and as a learning tool when searched by clinical signs. Consultant selectively indexes 70 veterinary medical journals for quality articles that are relevant to clinical practice.
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Quality
Relevance to clinical practice
The most recent literature is emphasized, which should help complement your textbook -- which started going out of date as soon as it is written. Sometimes Consultant only provides references from the last two years. Don't expect Consultant to give a comprehensive list of references for a diagnosis, but it is an excellent place to start.
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(A) Diagnosis -- When you already know the diagnosis
(B) Clinical signs -- Search for possible diagnoses based on ...
- - -Hints for using Consultant: For a known disease or condition, click "Search by Diagnosis". Then choose the "Species" from the pull-down menu, and enter one or more disease terms. From there, click on your choice of diagnosis to see a brief description of the disease, its clinical signs, species affected, and some recent journal article citations and/or web page links of potential interest. For identifying possible diseases with one or more clinical signs, click "Search by Signs". Then, choose the "Species" from the pull-down menu, and enter the first clinical sign, such as "vomiting". Additional clinical signs can be added before searching the database to obtain a list of diagnoses exhibiting those particular signs.
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