http://www.fpnotebook.com/

About the Family Practice Notebook

Mission

This notebook is intended to aid primary care providers in their pursuit of optimal care, well-informed patients, and healthy families.

Content

This site is derived from a peripheral brain collection of medical notes and is divided over 4316 topics within 616 chapters and 31 subspecialty books. Information is gleaned from reputable sources, referenced where possible, taken from lectures and workshops, peer reviewed articles and bulletins, and key texts.

New approaches to medical problems are referenced with supporting studies, and further reading is often suggested on general medical issues. Images, sounds, worksheets, patient education materials, and links to other sites are interwoven with the text, at no extra charge. Peer review of this site would be a very welcome addition, but as of yet I rely on email feedback to correct errors and misinformation.

Funding

This site is personally funded by the site author, Scott Moses. Additional funding is obtained via advertising support; all paid advertisements are clearly delineated as such.

Please let us know if you find any advertising to be distasteful or inappropriate, or which you find dilutes the value or integrity of this web site. Content is solely per the discretion of the site author.

Disclaimer

I have tried with great fervor to limit errors, misinformation, and copyright infringement in the text. This is, however, no guarantee that the notebook is without fault.

Please exercise your own clinical judgment when implementing any management strategies found here. I would greatly appreciate feedback regarding any problems you discover while perusing these pages. Please use this site only after reading and agreeing to the terms and conditions (including the privacy statement).

Creation

These medical notes began as a few scattered pearls of text stored with the Notetaker application of the HP Palmtop 200LX. Over the last 5 years, notes from conferences, articles, textbooks and colleagues have grown into over 4.8 Megabytes of text (150 MB of HTML and images) spread over 31 individual medical specialty files.

Initially the html code for this site was generated from the HP Notetaker files using Visual Basic for Applications inside Microsoft Word. However, as the collection of text grew, so did the complexity of its organization, and a program known as Brains was developed as a stand alone application.

Brains is able to import raw text from each separate subspecialty Notetaker file, process its text, titles and synonyms, as well as images and links, and store it as a Microsoft access database. Brains then uses a collection of the database files to publish the html text, generating a customized table of contents for each page, and inserting cross links to related text as it processes the data. A relatively fast XP machine still spends 16 hours republishing the web site each time it is updated.

A third iteration of Brains is in the works, that can ouput the site in 1-2 hours. This latest version, will also allow topics to be linked to the UMLS metathesaurus codes, and to integrate EMR documentation tools.