UptoDate quick guide

UpToDate®
UpToDate Delivers Powerful Features
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UpToDate synthesizes the most recent medical information into evidence-based,
practical recommendations clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions.
Learn “What’s New” by
specialty since the last release.
Search in your
own language.
Use the Find tool to search for a
word or synonym within a topic.
Access patient
information to
share with your
patients.
Print text, references,
graphics or the
entire topic.
Email topics to
your colleagues or
patients.
View a detailed
outline within
each topic.
Link to information
about authors and
editors.
Click to go directly
to summary and
treatment
recommendations.
View the date
when the topic
was last updated.
Click on a heading
to go directly to the
information you need.
Click to view a
Medline abstract
with full text
when available.
Provide valuable
feedback by
submitting
questions and
comments to
our editors.
View all Graphics
associated with a
topic in a thumbnail
format.
Graded evidence
and recommendations.
Access related topics to find
additional information.
Note: Visual does not depict full topic contents.
UpToDate®
Robust Content
UpToDate includes more than 10,000 clinical topics in 21 specialties:
Adult & Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Adult Primary Care &
Internal Medicine
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dermatology
Endocrinology & Diabetes
Family Medicine & General
Practice
Gastroenterology &
Hepatology
General Surgery
Geriatrics
Hematology
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology & Hypertension
Neurology
Obstetrics, Gynecology
& Women’s Health
Oncology
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Pulmonary,
Critical Care
& Sleep Medicine
Rheumatology
Specialties in
development:
Palliative Care
Comprehensive Features
UpToDate is committed to innovation and value, so we are continually
making enhancements that will help clinicians provide better patient care.
A Summary & Recommendations button that links you directly
to summary and treatment recommendations.
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Graphics Search provides easy access to our library of more than 25,000
pictures, tables, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, algorithms and movies.
Practice changing updates highlighting new recommendations
and/or updates that we anticipate may change usual clinical practice.
More than 135 clinical calculators, which eliminates the need to
remember formulas or use separate devices.
A drug database and interactions program (in partnership with Lexicomp®) with more than 5,100 adult, pediatric, and international
drug topics.
Links to full text for referenced articles (provided your institution subscribes to a service that allows this access).
A search widget that can be added to your hospital intranet or
website, ultimately getting you to your answer faster.
CME/CE/CPD, available when you access UpToDate from your hospital intranet or EMR – available in select countries.
Nearly 1,500 patient information topics to help you educate your
patients and encourage shared decision making.
News from UpToDate, a page that includes recent content updates, training opportunities and links to our newsletter.
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