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UpToDate: Clinical Decision Support System

What is it? UpToDate is a clinical decision support system used by physicians worldwide. You can access this database through the library and get specific, detailed answers to your clinical questions, often within minutes. UpToDate includes original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 5,100 leading physicians. Features of UpToDate include:

  • Over 9,100 topics in 20 specialties, including Psychiatry and General Surgery
  • Graded treatment recommendations
  • Links to full text for referenced articles
  • A drug database and drug interactions program
  • Medical calculators
  • What's New (summary of important new findings by specialty)
  • Practice Changing Updates
  • Patient education materials

To use the UpToDate Anywhere Mobile App
  1. Login to UpToDate through a web browser (either on your mobile device or desktop) using the MSU Library’s link
  2. Select ‘Register’ and create an UpToDate account
  3. From your mobile device, download the UpToDate app
  4. Open the app and login with your UpToDate username/password (not your NetID!)
In order to maintain off campus access through the app, you will need to login to your UpToDate account through the Library’s link every 90 days.

Why use it? Get specific, detailed answers to your clinical questions

Coverage: current

Access: Due to our licensing agreement with UpToDate, this resource can only be accessed by authorized MSU students, staff, and faculty with a current NetID.

Vendor: Wolters Kluwer Health

Learn more: UpToDate

Subjects: Nursing & Medicine, Nursing & Medicine Core

Linked Data Topics:
Article (publishing)
Health
Medicine
Related Databases:
PTSDpubs
JBI Evidence-Based Practice Database
Springer Nature Experiments
SPORTDiscus
ProQuest Central

Total interactions: 66684

Rank: 7 out of 312 databases

Rating: 5 out of 5 (based on 66684 out of 2183550 total interactions with all of our databases)

Last updated: 2024-04-18 11:57:51

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