8
Using the Index
Use Topics to find disease monographs
quickly. For example to find Noncardiac
pulmonary edema type edema and press
ENTER
.
Type non or use
or
to highlight
Noncardiac…, and press
ENTER
.
You do not need to type spaces. To delete
a letter use
BACK
. You can also use
or
to highlight an index entry.
Use User Terms to search for diseases by
their common names. While you would
type tuberculosis on the Outline menu,
you can type tb on the User Terms menu
and press
ENTER
to find the same mono-
graph.
Use Medications to go to the text of the
disease or a list of diseases that a generic
drug is used for. For example, type war-
farin and press
ENTER
. Use
or
to
highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.
Use Trades to go to the text of the dis-
ease or a list of diseases that a brand
name drug is used for. For example, type
coumadin and press
ENTER
. Use
or
to highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.
