UpToDate: Clinical Decision Support System

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

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!)

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

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PTSDpubs

JBI EBP Database

Springer Nature Experiments (formerly Springer Protocols)

SPORTDiscus

ProQuest Central

Total interactions: 60826

Rank: 7 out of 285 databases

Rating: 5 out of 5 (based on 60826 out of 2197521 total interactions with all of our databases)

Last updated: 2023-03-30 21:56:37

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