UpToDate’s Value Proposition
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World- renowned Authors Relevant Content UpToDate’s Value Proposition Easy to Use UpToDate synthesizes the most recent medical information into evidence-based, practical recommendations clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions.
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World-renowned Authors
RelevantContent
UpToDate’s Value Proposition
Easy to Use
UpToDate synthesizes the most recent medical information into evidence-based, practical recommendations clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions.
• 9,000+ topics in 18 specialties• Additional 5,000+ unique drug entries• 700+ patient information topics• 4,800+ physician authors, editors and peer reviewers• 7,700+ graded recommendations• 450,000+ users in 149 countries
UpToDate Facts-at-a-Glance
Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Adult Primary Care and Internal Medicine Allergy and Immunology Cardiovascular Medicine Dermatology* Endocrinology and Diabetes Family Medicine Gastroenterology and Hepatology GeriatricsHematology Hospital Medicine
Specialties Covered in UpToDateInfectious Diseases Nephrology and Hypertension Neurology Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health Oncology Pediatrics Psychiatry* Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Rheumatology Surgery* *In development
UpToDate has users in149 countries
UpToDate Is Trusted Worldwide
UpToDate’s Editorial Process
• Authored and edited by leading physicians• World-renowned expertise• Hand-searching of 460+ journals• Three-tiered peer review process
UpToDate’s Editorial Process
UpToDate
EditorialProcess
Our authors collaborate withmultiple specialty editors tocreate or update the topic.
Final topic contentconsensus is reached.
New clinical studiesare released thatimpact care.
Topic isavailable tocliniciansworldwide viaUpToDate.
The topic ispeer-reviewed.
A gradingeditor reviews
the gradedrecommendations.
Graded Recommendations
Grades denote strength of recommendation and quality of evidence
• Strong recommendation = Grade 1 [ “We recommend” ]
• Weak recommendation = Grade 2 [ “We suggest” ]
• Evidence = Grade A, B or C [ High, moderate or low quality ]
Hierarchy of EvidenceHigh - Quality
Low - Quality
Meta-analyses of randomized trialsof high methodological quality
Randomized trials with methodological limitations
Observational studiesUnsystematic clinical observations
Graded Recommendations
Users SayUpToDate Improves Care
89% changed management
94% improves quality of care
81% changed diagnostic testing
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Source: UpToDate Subscriber Survey, 2010
UpToDate “changes the wayyou practice medicine — really.”
Medical ProfessionalsEndorse UpToDate
Pam Wetzel, MDChief Medical Information OfficerSwedish American Hospital, Rockford, IL
Marc Greenwald, MDChief of MedicineSignature Healthcare-Brockton Hospital, Brockton, MA
Medical ProfessionalsEndorse UpToDate
UpToDate “applicability to patients is in evidence every day.”
R.M. Valentijn, MDMDHAGA Hospital, the Hague, the Netherlands
“UpToDate is …a new way of practicing medicine …for day-to-day practice there is no other product.”
Medical ProfessionalsEndorse UpToDate
