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MDCalc

We’ve just hit 300 calculators on our website (and iPhone and Android apps), and we thought it might be a good time for reflection.

By the Numbers:

  • The Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS) was our 300th calculator!
  • We’ve added over 120 calculators in the past year alone.
  • MDCalc has been around for 12 years.
  • We estimate that we’ve helped with over 15 million patient decisions across the world through our calculators and content in 2016.
  • We’re used in 210 countries.
  • Despite only having been prospectively validated in 2013, the HEART Score is already our 6th most popular calculator.
  • We receive about 5 new calculator requests per week.
  • We have 46 featured interviews with calculator creators that give insight into their thinking about their own scores.
  • We provide calculators for 50+ specialties.
  • We are used by at least 75% of US medical students in their clinical rotations.

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First Scurvy, Now Sepsis: Is Vitamin C the New Old Wonder Drug?

Rachel J. Kwon, MD 1 Comment

See Dr. Marik’s response to this article. 

fresh-orange-juice-529486301-5828e1903df78c6f6abe5c9aA recent small single-center before-and-after trial by Marik et al showed that vitamins in combination with other relatively safe therapies may improve outcomes in sepsis. We asked three critical care physicians to give their thoughts on the debate on vitamin C in sepsis, and our own co-founder and healthcare finance expert Joe Habboushe to weigh in on the cost/price argument. Continue reading “First Scurvy, Now Sepsis: Is Vitamin C the New Old Wonder Drug?” →

Tricks Up our New Website’s Sleeve: Version 3.1 is Here!

MDCalc

After a lot of hard work from MDCalc’s development team, we released Version 3.0 of MDCalc.com in January and just this past weekend we launched a few updates with Version 3.1. The new site offers a lot of great new features and customization that make using MDCalc even easier. Let’s jump into it! Continue reading “Tricks Up our New Website’s Sleeve: Version 3.1 is Here!” →

Welcome to Paging MDCalc!

MDCalc

Users are always emailing us asking, “Hey, which calculator is best for chest pain,” or “When shouldn’t I be using a particular calculator?”

We also wanted a place for further discussions about decision support in medicine, as well as a place to provide tips and tricks to using our brand new iPhone app, so we thought we’d make a separate content site for extended prose, discussion, and support.

Welcome to Paging MDCalc!