BACKGROUND Computerized clinical knowledge mana-gement systems hold enormous potential for improving quality and efficiency. However, their impact on clinical practice is not well known. OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of UpToDate on outcomes of care. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING National sample of US inpatient hospitals. PATIENTS Fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. INTERVE...

I thank Drs. Hooper and Wilson for their comments on my article.1 I concur completely with Dr. Hooper’s sentiments. Dr. Wilson links conflicts that arise through a physician’s relationship with industry and a physician’s scientific interest in a topic (so-called academic conflict of interest). These issues have been conflated recently by physicians who have financial conflicts. The two are comp...

BACKGROUND In this era of evidence-based medicine, doctors are increasingly using information technology to acquire medical knowledge. This study evaluates how residents and interns utilise and perceive the personal digital assistant (PDA) and the online resource UpToDate. METHODS This is a questionnaire survey of all residents and interns in a tertiary teaching hospital. RESULTS Out of 168...

UpToDate| June 2023 UpToDate® ASA Monitor 2023, Vol. 87, 31. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938852.60627.fa Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation UpToDate®. 2023; 87:31 doi: Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers E...

BACKGROUND UpToDate and PubMed are popular sources for medical information. Data regarding the efficiency of PubMed and UpToDate in daily medical care are lacking. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this observational study was to describe the percentage of answers retrieved by these information sources, comparing search results with regard to different medical topics and the time spent searching for a...

INTRODUCTION UpToDate is widely used by clinicians worldwide and includes more than 9400 recommendations that apply the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) framework. GRADE guidance warns against strong recommendations when certainty of the evidence is low or very low (discordant recommendations) but has identified five paradigmatic situations in which disc...

Background.  UpToDate is an online clinical decision support resource that is used extensively by clinicians around the world. Digital surveillance techniques have shown promise to aid with the detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. We sought to determine whether UpToDate searches for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) could be used to detect and monitor MERS outbreaks i...

PURPOSE To compare PubMed Clinical Queries and UpToDate regarding the amount and speed of information retrieval and users' satisfaction. METHOD A cross-over randomized trial was conducted in February 2009 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences that included 44 year-one or two residents who participated in an information mastery workshop. A one-hour lecture on the principles of information m...

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