The idea behind UpToDate is relatively simple, but
totally unique.
Every day, clinicians have questions about patient care. Patients
have questions about their health as well. Why not recruit a faculty of
experts to answer those questions, keep the information updated, and
create a format that is easy to use? Why not also provide all of the
necessary background information to understand why the recommendations
are being made?
UpToDate does all of that and much more.
UpToDate is a worldwide clinical community that you
can be part of and benefit from.
UpToDate is the largest clinical community in the world
dedicated to synthesizing knowledge for clinicians and patients. Our
community includes more than 3600 expert clinicians who function as authors,
editors and peer reviewers and more than 300,000 users who provide
feedback and questions to our editorial group. Our role is to facilitate
interaction among members of the health care community and to synthesize
and disseminate information in order to help doctors be better doctors.
UpToDate answers your clinical questions.
UpToDate is an electronic information resource -
available on the Web,
desktop, and
PDA. With UpToDate,
you can log in from the office, exam room, or bedside and get specific,
detailed answers to your clinical questions. Over eighty million
patient-related problems are researched each year with UpToDate.
UpToDate is comprehensive and current, keeping you
informed of the latest clinical findings.
UpToDate covers more than 7300 topics in 13
medical specialties and includes more than 75,000 pages of text,
graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 250,000 references, and
a drug database. Our physician editors and authors review and update the
content continuously. An updated version of UpToDate is
released every four months.
UpToDate provides treatment recommendations that help
patients get the best possible care.
UpToDate includes treatment recommendations based on the
best medical evidence. Recommendations are kept current as new studies
are released and practices change. We are now grading our recommendations,
so you can assess their strength and the quality of the evidence more
quickly. For more details, please see our editorial policy.
UpToDate is written by expert physicians in their
respective fields, so you have confidence in our recommendations.
More than 3600 physician authors and editors, who
are experts in their respective fields, write topic reviews that cover
all the major aspects of a particular condition, including symptoms,
tests and diagnosis, and treatment options. All topics are also
subjected to rigorous peer review.
UpToDate is evidence-based,
providing you with information you can rely on.
UpToDate is evidence-based and uses a literature-driven
updating system; more than 375 journals
are monitored by editors and authors, and anytime something of
importance is published, it is incorporated into the program. The key
word here is "incorporated." UpToDate is not a journal watch.
New studies are not simply added, but rather they are placed in the
context of what has already been published in that field.
UpToDate is unbiased - providing you information that
is not influenced by commercial interests.
We believe it is crucial to maintain our editorial independence,
so we do not accept money from pharmaceutical companies or other
advertisers.
