"What's the data?" applications

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For anyone looking for a very practically useful iPhone app, check out "Neurosurgery: What's the data?".  It requires a (very cheap) subscription but allows you to review all the Class 1 evidence on a subject in seconds.  Very helpful before pimp sessions. 

There are also similar apps in neuro-oncology, cerebrovascular, and spine, but the neurosurgery app includes all the subspecialty references.  the other apps are mainly meant for non-neurosurgeons (neuro-oncology, stroke neurology, ortho spine, etc).

there is a free online version as well:  go to whatsthedata.com and click on "Web Resource".

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I tried this app during residency. Deleted it after 1 month. Its subjects weren’t even remotely close to being current on the latest data (at least when I was using it, which granted was several years ago).