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27:, whose purpose is to allow easy calculation of various scores and indices, presenting the user with a friendly interface that hides the complexity of the formulas. Most offer further helpful information such as result interpretation guides and medical literature references. Generally, such calculators are intended for use by health care professionals, and use by the general public is discouraged. 56:
other calculation easy. Some of the standard units they make include eGFR, CrCl, BMI, BSA, DAS and many other custom units designed for a specific purpose. There are two ways to make a calculator using an array that looks up an answer based on a large array of data or where the calculator computes the answer using a mathematical equation.
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Purpose-built devices for specific medical calculations are available from various commercial sources. Pharma-Insight Inc. in Canada is one of the only companies in the world that is able to make custom specific medical calculators built to perform a specific medical calculation to make dosing or
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Various websites are available that provide calculations from a browser based input form.
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Software-based medical calculators are available for various PDA-platforms, including the
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Lee P. (2009). "Design of infusion rate calculator tools for intravenous therapy".
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Bloice, Marcus D.; Wotawa, Franz; Holzinger, Andreas (June 2009).
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computer software
medicine
physicians
personal digital assistants
iPhone
Palm
Pocket PC
Cornell Medical Calculators
doi
10.7748/ns.23.33.43.s52
PMID
19480286
"Java's alternatives and the limitations of Java when writing cross-platform applications for mobile devices in the medical domain"
doi
10.1109/ITI.2009.5196053
ISBN
978-953-7138-15-8
S2CID
14269766
Categories
Medical equipment
Medical software

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