UpToDate Trial 1st August – 30th September

UPTODATE^® IS NOW AVAILABLE AT Oxford Health FT
Oxford Health is participating in a 60 day trial of  UpToDate^®, the clinical decision support system preferred by physicians worldwide. The trial runs from 1^st August to 30 September 2013.
You can access UpToDate from anywhere with internet access, using your Oxford Health NHS Athens log in (contact library.enquiries@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk for more information) and get specific, detailed answers to your clinical questions, often within minutes.

To access:

1. log into MY Athens at https://auth.athensams.net/?ath_returl=%2Fmy%2F&ath_dspid=ATHENS.MY   

Select Resources / Local Resources/ then scroll down to Uptodate  (tick to add to Favourites so that it will appear on your MyAthens front page in future) and select the link Uptodate to access- initiallyyou will be asked to register to personalise your account but this is not essential.

2.     Alternatively you can visit www.uptodate.com/online and click on Log in (top right corner); the select Log in via Athens/ enter Athens user name and password.

UpToDate includes original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 5,100 leading physicians. As a subscriber, you can access:

• Over 9,500 topics in 19 specialties, including Hospital Medicine
• Graded treatment recommendations
• Links to full text for referenced articles (provided your institution subscribes to a service that allows this access)
• A drug database and drug interactions program (in partnership with Lexicomp)(n.b.please note that this is US based).
• Medical calculators
• What’s New (summary of important new findings by specialty)
• Practice Changing UpDates
• Patient education materials

UpToDate includes the following specialties

Clinical Specialties fully covered

UpToDate is used by over 600,000 clinicians in 149 countries, including 90% of major teaching hospitals in the US. The program impacts thousands of decisions made by clinicians every day.

Please e-mail your feedback to sarah.maddock@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk