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Free Monthly Downloads of StafRef! Pier for your Palm PDA

Palm handheld users at Queen's University now have unlimited access to download STAT!Ref's point-of-care PDA application with the American College of Physician's (ACPs) Physician Information and Education Resource (PIER) monthly updates. To access this download, please go to: http://library.queensu.ca/files/PierPDA/STAT!RefPDA-PIER.exe

Instructions for downloading and installing STAT!Ref PDA: PIER are as follows:

  1. Once you have navigated to the location noted above, double click on STAT!RefPDA-PIER.exe
  2. Follow instructions to install STAT!Ref PDA:PIER onto your computer.
  3. You may need to move our largest file, PPDOC.pdb (approx. 19Mb), to your PDA's Memory Card. You can move this file, PPDOC.pdb, using Palm's HotSync® Manager. Make sure you change the destination of the PPDOC.pdb file before you HotSync® to your PDA. All of our other files must reside in your PDA's main memory. 
  4. When the installation is complete, perform a HotSync operation to your PDA.
  5. To disable the nagging feature which is built into our STAT!Ref PDA: PIER product you must register. To receive your registration code, go to: http://online.statref.com/regcodemanager/default.aspx?un=QUEENS&pw=PDA
  6. Enter in your Palm OS HotSync Id, your name and your e-mail address and you will receive your registration code. (We will, also, send you an e-mail with your registration code for you to have for your records.) STAT!Ref PDA:PIER must be registered to disable the nagging feature that is built in.
  7. Our PDA application, STAT!Ref PDA:PIER, will ask for this registration code, enter the registration code and you are ready to go. (Once entered the registration code is good for up to 12 months.)
  8. STAT!Ref PDA: PIER is updated monthly, so remember to repeat steps 1 - 4 on a monthly basis to keep up with ACP PIER's latest information.

Also, to use the Queen's University subscription to STAT!Ref Online with full text cross-searchable access, click http://online.statref.com/default.aspx?grpalias=QUEENS to automatically log you onto STAT!Ref.

Last Updated: 17 August 2010