Linking policy

UpToDate welcomes links to its home page, patient information topics and professional-level previews. You may establish a link to the web site, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your web site or its contents by UpToDate or by any group or individual related to or affiliated with UpToDate.

You can also add an UpToDate for Patients Search Widget to your site. Learn more about our widget.

Linking guidelines

If you wish to link to us please observe the following guidelines:

Links should be text only and should not use the UpToDate logo. Some examples include:

• Links to our home page or landing pages: www.uptodate.com or UpToDate or www.uptodate.com/patients or UpToDate for Patients
• Links into our table of contents: UpToDate for Patients, Table of Contents, Heart Disease
• Links to our patient information topics that use the title as the link: Patient information: Bone marrow transplantation (stem cell transplantation)
• Links to our professional-level previews that use the title as the link: Donor selection for hematopoietic cell transplantation

We suggest you navigate to the page(s) you are interested in linking to and copy the URL onto your page.

Please note, deep links to our topic pages may change. Please check these links occasionally to confirm they are still live.

Text you can use to link to UpToDate

If you would like to include a description with the links please use the following:

UpToDate for Patients:

Short: UpToDate for Patients: Consult the medical information resource doctors trust

Long: UpToDate is an online medical information resource where patients can go to learn about a medical condition, better understand management and treatment options, and find information to have a better dialogue with their health care providers. UpToDate provides in-depth, authoritative medical information, including recommendations based on the latest published evidence. Patients can view hundreds of free patient-level topics or subscribe to gain access to thousands of physician-level topics. UpToDate is the trusted resource of physicians around the world and is used by the majority of academic medical centers in the US. Visit them at www.uptodate.com/patients

Following is sample code that could be used to create a link to UpToDate for Patients site:

<a href="http://www.uptodate.com/patients">Search UpToDate© for Patients to find physicians-written recommendations on thousands of medical conditions.</a>

UpToDate for Clinicians:

Short: UpToDate: The Clinical Answers You Need, Anytime, Anywhere

Long: UpToDate is an electronic medical information resource - available on the Web, Desktop, and PDA, that is used by hundreds of thousands of physicians around the world to answer clinical questions that arise in everyday medical practice. What makes UpToDate unique is that it offers recommendations based on the best medical evidence available. These recommendations are kept current as new studies are released and practices change. That's just one reason why clinicians value UpToDate. But there are many other reasons including the fact that UpToDate's content is written by medical experts, it's unbiased, it's in-depth and it's easy to access and search. Visit them at www.uptodate.com

Following is sample code that could be used to create a link to UpToDate for Clinicians site:

<a href="http://www.uptodate.com">Search UpToDate© to find fast accurate answers to everyday clinical questions.</a>

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