In clinical settings, when you care for patients every decision counts. UpToDate provides the best evidence in research combined with clinical guidance at your fingertips to provide best care to the patients.
UpToDate includes current, evidence-based, and graded clinical recommendations that are reviewed by world renowned physicians. The database covers information on over 12,000 topics in 25 specialties, including Pediatrics, Medicine, Psychiatry, General Surgery, Dermatology, Palliative Care.
UpToDate has graded treatment recommendations, drug monographs and drug interactions. The database also includes over 200 medical calculators that allow easy calculation of various scores, indices, and more.
The Practice Changing section of the database highlights selected specific new recommendations and/or updates that may change usual clinical practice.
Patient education and communication is a necessity in clinical practice. The Patient Education section includes two levels of content for patients, short overviews in accordance with plain language on questions a person may have, and longer, more detailed overviews.
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