Subscription to UpTo Date, Wolters Kluwer Health Publishing!

Please be advised that our institution subscribes to UptoDate, an evidence-based clinical decision documentation resource used with confidence by healthcare practitioners around the world to help them make the right decisions in healthcare settings. It has been proven to change the way doctors practice medicine and is the only resource of its kind that is associated with improved outcomes, the only resource associated with the best evidence-based outcomes.

UpToDate can be accessed from any institutional computer, and mobile access will be available after pre-creation of a user account on an institutional computer for personalised use.

• on the institutional IP by accessing:  uptodate.com 

• mobile access: after creating a user account from an IP within the institution.

CONTENT AND RELEVANCE

• UpToDate contains all sub-specialties of internal medicine (at the level needed by the specialist), all specialties of primary care, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, general surgery and more - all in one resource. 

• UpToDate (www.uptodate.com), a powerful information search and retrieval system that enables doctors to use evidence-based medicine (medical records) in their practice: medical articles on over 12,700 topics for more than 25 medical specialties, over 1,500 patient information materials, over 37,000 charts and links to over 530,000 references, 200 medical calculators, news on healthcare topics, Lexicomp® drug interaction, etc.
  
  

• The UpToDate database is designed for clinicians and is an essential part of the daily practice of medical specialists. UpToDate is the only resource associated with best evidence-based outcomes that serves as an informational support for clinical decision making, indispensable to hundreds of thousands of physicians and healthcare practitioners. 

• UpToDate incorporates over 5,600 detailed monographs on medicines. Each monograph provides essential details, including recommended dosages for adults, children or the elderly, warnings, adverse reactions, directions for use, marked and unmarked uses.

• The database is systematically updated and provides objective, evidence-based medical information. The search process is simple and starts with a keyword related to symptoms, conditions (diseases), organ names, diagnostic procedures, treatments or drugs. By clicking on the Search option, the database will provide a list of evidence-based articles, in order of relevance, which can be sorted by patient type: adult or child.