UpToDate® is a evidence-based clinical decision support resource. This is available to all staff at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.
UpToDate is available for free from every Trust computer and you can now download the app to your phones.
On your desktop click on PAH Applications > UpToDate
Select Register (top-right of screen) to register for an account.
Once you have an account, you can download the app on your devices and accrue CPD points as you use the resource!
UpToDate offers current, evidence-based, and graded clinical recommendations that are written, reviewed, and continuously updated by an international editorial team of more than 6,300 world-renowned physicians.
Throughout the trial period, you may be asked for feedback on your experience using UpToDate.
You have access to:
• More than 10,500 topics in 23 specialties, including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Dermatology, Palliative Care, and Psychiatry
• Graded treatment recommendations
• In-depth drug monographs and a drug interactions program (from Lexicomp®), including drug-to-drug and drug-to-herb interactions and dosage information for adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients
• More than 160 medical calculators
• “What’s New” topics featuring a summary of important new findings by specialty
• “Practice Changing UpDates” highlighting important developments likely to impact clinical practice
• Corresponding Patient Education topics written at both “The Basics” and “Beyond the Basics” reading levels
>>>>>> Visit the UpToDate User Academy to learn more, and/or join a live webinar <<<<<<<
If you have any questions about accessing UpToDate or require any training support, please contact Harlow Healthcare Library at Paht.Lib.Desk@nhs.net or phone ext.7021
Use your PAHT OpenAthens account to log into the BMJ Best Practice point-of-care tool: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/
BMJ Best Practice features an innovative comorbidities tool:
BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities
The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities tool prompts users to consider a patient’s comorbidities when viewing treatment information on an acute topic. When comorbidities are selected, a tailored patient management plan is produced instantly.
Here's a short video on how to use the BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities tool.
Don’t forget the app!
The BMJ Best Practice app is the highest rated clinical decision support app available, and is included with your subscription. Click here to find out how to download it today.