Infectious Disease Compendium App Reviews

Awesome app to keep up with the world around us!💯 Keep you aware of knowledge needed in the world spread of germs !🐝

Great resource! fun to read, very informative, way better that other infection disease apps out there!!! period.

Good way to make sense of Micro reports. More in depth than I expected. Author's a bit of an iconoclast - doesn't believe nasal Bactroban is useful for MRSA colonization, for example - and has a sense of humor. Be sure to find the 'Rants' section - useful stuff, in no way boring. Recommended.

This is my go to App for anything ID. Definitely worth every penny. I'd pay more, actually. Format is very efficient - Bugs, Drugs, Diseases, Search - you can even mark your favorites, the stuff you see the most (which is one of my favorite parts). Bottom line is that this gets you to the exact thing you're looking for faster. Keeps things short and only elaborates with the important references and annotations when it's necessary / more complicated (say, Staph Aureus vs. Micrococcus). Updates are timely and the app functions well without glitches/pauses (unlike SOOO many other apps which nearly kill me in their slowness). For point-of-care ID, this is the best, most efficient first source you will find. Do yourself a favor and get it. My only constructive criticism (which can be fixed in future update) is when you go back (say, after you click on an annotation and you read it and want to pick up where you left off) it takes you to the top of whatever screen you were on. Not a huge deal because the format is generally short enough that I can find my place, but it would be nice if it took you back to the spot on the page where you were. Probably easier said than coded, but there is my one and only possible improvement. Good luck out there.

This does work well.

Glad I found this. It's not only an informative resource but is interesting to read.

I love the option to have access to this information for free online but you clearly have put a lot of time and effort into making a great product. Bought the app to support your devotion to providing easy and fun to read information for everyone out there who wants to learn how the ID Docs think.

What's not to love?

I'm an FNP in internal medicine. Love this app. Not the "textbook" answers that aren't really helpful but the "real life practice" answers I need! Like having a mentor in ID I can call up for advice. Thank you for this app.

This guide is a good introduction for those interested in infectious diseases.

App opens --> drugs and bugs listed --> upon selecting medication or bacteria section opens however description is blank for every Med and bug.

Especially like the rants and raves, they play to the art of medicine in a way that others don't.

Easy to find the information you need and includes a good synthesis. Sanford often biased towards the newest, not necessarily well accepted treatment

Great resource, accurate, funny and easy to search. I use this app on a weekly basis to either study from or for a clinical reference. I also encourage Med students I work with to get this app. Source: ED doctor and wannabe ID doctor.

Excellent,love the reviews.

Great resource with some humor to boot. Great update that made it IOS 7 compliant.

No content anymore, even when reloaded.

If you have a sense of humor and you appreciate learning in curbside consult fashion, this is the best ID ap that you can find. I love this and refer to it often. Easy to use and up to date.

Why can't all reference materials be written with Dr. Crislip's merciless wit, hyperlinked brevity, and incisive commentary? Like Sanford remixed by Seinfeld. Download it already.

As a Family Medicine resident, this has been invaluable. Thanks.

Very good, worth the money. Quality information spiced with humor make a very savory stew.

Best app so far for getting the information I need. He cuts through the bull and tells it like it is. I learn and laugh reading this app.

Has what you need, updated. I do wish the app icon was updated to reflect new iOS so it would look nice on my home page, but I guess you can only hope for so much. Best antibiotic guide app otherwise.

Internist, soon to start my ID fellowship. Easy to digest ID info. Worth every penny.

I'm an ID doc and also a Hospitalist; this app is good enough that I rarely have to whip out my Sanford Guide. Crislip is the best; check his podcasts too!

Great recommendations based on a blend of literature and practice experience. I use this app very often as an ID pharmacist.

Please update it!!!

I was pretty upset by the amount of typos because I had high hopes for this app. If there are typos everywhere, is the information wrong, too?

I’ve been listening to Mark Crislip’s ID podcasts for years and years. I’m an ED doc and have learned a ton of ID from Mark, including an overall philosophical approach to ID patients. I refer to this app often. It’s an absolute steal at $5.99. And I love that Mark’s irreverence comes through in this app, just like it does in his podcasts.

Useful and well organized app. I would like to see some updates such as ICD 10… long promised in the body of the app, but have yet to arrive. Makes me wonder if the information inside the app is up-to-date as well. Still completely worth the paltry little money being charged for it.

iOS 7 has rendered this app useless. Will be holding my breath until the fix comes out. Otherwise, a great app.

Definitely worth $6. Comes in handy relearning my micro after years in the molecular lab. Really enjoying it. 🔬💊👍🏼

Incredibly useful both for studying and wards. Both humorous and informative!!!!

Reading the rants section paid off the 6 dollars I spent on this app! I know that part is not what I am primarily meant to review but it is so good that I could not resist. The app otherwise appears helpful so far. I love author's puscast podcast. I'm not an ID doctor but both these resources are pretty helpful and this app is easy to navigate.

Can we please get an update for screen resolutions higher than that of an iPhone 4? Thank you.

I rarely leave a review but this app is amazing! Please just keep updating it..

I use this frequently as a Hospitalist to guide me in antibiotic therapy.

I appreciate Dr. Crislip's insight and perspective on ID.

Finally, the infectious disease guide that I have been waiting for. Great organization, up to date information and best of all, context, not just lists. This is a great guide and allows me to educate myself appropriately before getting an ID consult! Thank you, Mark, for doing the heavy lifting. Where do you find the time?

Informative with a little humor sprinkled about.

Wonderfully detailed info, biting dry humor. What else would you expect from the writer of the QuackCast podcast?

Especially helpful to me as a rural health MD. This app gives me a concise resource with clinically relevant pearls and anecdotes I don't get from other resources. By the time I get an ID consult, I have already done what the books recommend. Now what I need is to tap into the clinical experience i can only get from a colleague who has been in the trenches for a few decades. That's what this app does for me. It's also refreshing to find a colleague with a pleasant sense of humor. You have done us all a tremendous service by making this app available, which I'm sure has improved the quality and length of lives of many of our patients.

Thanks

Very helpful, source of practical knowledge, constantly updated. Use it daily Thanks

Longtime fan of M. crislip podcasts, both Puscast and Quackcast. The format of this compendium maximizes usefulness and minimizes superfluous info. Extremely useful for residents and would recommend to any intern. I was pleasantly surprised that he inserts his personality and humor into it as well.

Outstanding resource for internists in training.

Dr. Mark Crislip is so awesome! I thank him for this informative and hilarious app. I literally can’t put it down. Worth the little price!

Works like a gem. Easy to find what I'm looking for and has links to pubmed references.

Apps such as this aren't developed often. Individually compiled compendium of ID bugs and much more. Thank you, Dr.