UpToDate is widely used among research and development staff within Life Sciences organizations. Regardless of your organization’s areas of clinical focus, UpToDate offers valuable insights for key initiatives, ranging from your clinical trials work to your pharmacovigilance efforts. Our users tell us they’re consulting UpToDate for the latest insights in oncology, cardiology, immunology, epidemiology, and drug safety, to name just a few.
More than 2 million healthcare professionals around the world rely on UpToDate® as a trusted resource for medical information. It’s the clinical decision support resource that clinicians trust when they need answers to their point-of-care questions. The evidence-based clinical and drug information contained in UpToDate is continuously updated, but it is not merely an aggregation and report on the latest research. UpToDate presents a thorough synthesis of the evidence along with graded recommendations for action at the point of care. It can serve as a valuable catalyst for life sciences research.
UpToDate can be especially effective when deployed across your entire organization, helping to ensure your clinical leaders, research and development staff, and other key teams have access to the same information, whenever and wherever it’s needed. How can you use UpToDate within your organization?
Research and development
- During R&D, review current clinical best practices and treatment regimens from the perspective of practicing clinicians who are experts in the topic being discussed
- Quickly access the underlying evidence,* including care guidelines and research studies, used to develop best practices and recommendations
Medical affairs/clinical trials
- Research epidemiology and treatment standards for diseases
- Consult evidence to inform clinical trials
Pharmacovigilance
- Research adverse reactions to understand which are related to specific therapies
- Learn about conditions for which certain treatments and protocols are indicated and why
Market intelligence
- Derive insights from UpToDate drug topics, which go beyond basic drug information to deliver unique clinical perspective
- Provide in-depth drug and clinical information to support sales training
- Track competitor drugs, including off-label uses supported by clinicians and the medical literature
Plus . . .
- Access UpToDate anytime, anywhere on mobile devices
- Bookmark topics, see history of topics viewed, and easily see when important changes in medical evidence have been incorporated in UpToDate
- Clinicians earn continuing medical education credits whenever they research clinical questions
UpToDate helps expedite clinical research because its original content is built on a rigorous editorial process. More than 7,400 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers from 51 countries apply their clinical expertise to critically evaluate the medical literature and produce topics and graded recommendations in a succinct, searchable format.
UpToDate has a systematic and transparent editorial policy for identifying, reviewing and synthesizing clinical evidence as it applies to a clinical question.
Every day, UpToDate’s editorial network reviews
- More than 420 peer-reviewed journals
- Society guidelines, clinical databases, and clinical trials for important new medical findings
- Databases including Medline, The Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Guidelines and trial reports from leading agencies like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Medicines Agency, and the World Health Organization
- Proceedings of major national and international scientific meetings
UpToDate features
- Optimized search capabilities of 12,300+ clinical topics in 25 specialties
- More than 9,700 evidence-based graded recommendations
- A select drug database and drug interactions tool with 7,300 drug topics
- More than 530,600 links to references and citations
- Graphics search of more than 37,000 pictures, charts, and videos