Subscription review: UpToDate

Subscription end: 31 November 2023
Point of contact: Roger Reka, librarian, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services, Leddy Library (roger.reka@uwindsor.ca)
Status: Review complete - UpToDate renewed for 2023-2024
Feedback: Please submit your feedback via this form (UWin Account required)

The Leddy Library is evaluating its subscription to UpToDate. UpToDate is a clinical information point-of-care tool, used by clinicians to access synthesized medical information to aid in decision-making. We license this resource primarily for use by students in the nursing program but it is open to all University of Windsor faculty, students, and staff.

This resource is well used, however, there are other clinical information point-of-care tools on the market and the Library is evaluating whether it makes sense to change subscriptions. This decision will be primarily based on:

Alignment of the resource with curricular needs for the Faculty of Nursing's programs
Cost of the resource

No decision has been made yet on this subscription, and we value feedback from faculty and students. Updates will be posted here.

DynaMed
We are considering DynaMed as a possible replacement. The trial of DynaMed is active until October 15^th. Follow the link to our DynaMed trial page to access the product.

DynaMed is a clinical point-of-care tool that provides synthesized and graded medical information to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed is similar to UpToDate and research on the use of point-of-care tools finds these two products equal in terms:

ability to achieve accurate answers
time required for answering clinical questions
ease of use
quality of information
ability to assess level of evidence
accuracy in clinical answers

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