ACP—PIER This is the American College of Physicians’ point-of-care resource to evidence-based guidance. Available electronically from the online resource STAT!Ref through the Quick Link on the Library web site. Six areas of point-of-care modules include: diseases, screening and prevention, complementary and alternative medicine, ethical and legal issues, procedures, and the AHFS DI® Essentials™.

ACP-PIER Strengths

• Graded clinical recommendations based on the strength of the evidence available

• Over 300 modules focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases

• Evidence indicators and standard tables

• Quarterly updates

• Listed references are linked to PubMed citations and are tagged with the American College of Physician’s criteria of evidence ratings and criteria.

• Left-side toolbar to navigate throughout content pages.

ACP-PIER Cautions

• PIER user must go to the advanced search screen, deselect all textbooks in STAT!Ref then select ACP-PIER to search only the point-of-care tool.