As a strategic partner of the American College of Physicians, we are pleased to offer the ACP’s Physicians’ Information and Education Resource (PIER) as part of our “gold standard” line of quality clinical information products, services, and solutions. Available in an online format, as well as licensing opportunities for use within health information systems, PIER provides physicians, allied healthcare providers, educators, students, managers, insurers, policy makers and others with:

• Rapid access to actionable, evidence-based guidelines to improve the quality of patient care and save clinicians valuable time
• Trusted educational resources to facilitate patient-provider communication and shared decision-making
• Lifelong learning with a universe of clinical information
• Clinical data, tools and integrated connectivity to easily build whatever is needed in an information system
• The ability to reduce costs and medical errors through integration with EMRs, order entry, hospital information and practice management systems
  

Updated in real-time, PIER allows the user to drill down from more general to specific information, with immediate access to underlying supporting evidence from the medical literature.

PIER Modules and Their Benefits

All PIER content is rigorously peer-reviewed and each PIER module is updated continually by editorial consultants with the support of periodic searches of medical literature performed by experts in evidence-based medicine.

• Disease Modules – Evidence-based guidance on diagnosis and management of hundreds of diseases, structured to facilitate clinical workflow.
• Screening and Prevention Modules – Evidence to support rational use of screening and prevention measures in healthy people.
• Complementary/Alternative Medicine Modules – Overview of the harms and benefits of CAM modalities used in the management of common medical problems.
• Ethical and Legal Issues Modules – Background and guidance in approaching common legal and ethical dilemmas.
• Procedures Modules – Details of commonly ordered diagnostic and therapeutic tests and interventions.
• Drug Resource – Clinical Pharmacology’s comprehensive, clinically-relevant, real-time drug information monographs (may be purchased as an optional integrated resource).
• Clinical Presentations – Flow-diagram approaches to diagnosing undifferentiated symptoms, signs, and laboratory abnormalities.
  

Medical Evidence for Sound Decisions

Unlike most guidelines, PIER includes recommendations based on all levels of medical evidence, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort and observational studies, case reports, and expert opinion. Recommendations in PIER include strength-of-recommendation ratings based on the quality of underlying evidence, and each cited reference is graded according to the level of evidence.

Free Bonus Product for Clinical Pharmacology Customers

Subscribers to the online version of Clinical Pharmacology who purchase PIER Online will also gain access to PIER linked into Clinical Pharmacology absolutely free! Subscribers to both products can open PIER directly from the Resource Center menu within Clinical Pharmacology, and link to the related PIER module(s) when viewing indications in Clinical Pharmacology – no need to jump back and forth between websites or duplicate your searches.

In addition to its availability as an “add-on” module to Clinical Pharmacology, PIER Online is also available as a free-standing resource and for custom data licensing and integration. Learn more now.

For pricing for personal/individual use, a site license, custom data licensing, more information or to request a complimentary product demonstration, please call 1-800-375-0943 or 813-258-4747, or email sales@goldstandard.com.

Other Clinical Pharmacology Products:

• Clinical Calculators
• Clinical Pharmacology OnHand
• Global Drug Name Directory
• Krames Disease Information
• MedCounselor Consumer Web Licensing
• Professional Web Licensing