Friday 19 September 2014

UpToDate: Continuous Publishing

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Continuous Publishing

Did you know that UpToDate® publishes every business day  to keep you abreast of changes in medical research and practice? UpToDate authors and editors continually monitor over 450 medical journals, specialty guidelines, clinical databases and clinical trials for important new medical findings. 


  • In July 2014, 953 updates were published and 37 new topics were added.
  • In the first half of 2014, 6,419 updates were published and;
  • 109 new topics were added.
  • 192 updates from the second quarter of 2014 are featured in “What’s New”— a small number of the most important updates chosen by our editors.  Find What’s New on the top right menu bar or enter What’s New in the search box.
  • UpToDate received 1,537 feedback items for its editors, causing changes to over 500 topics in the first half of 2014. 

UpToDate also encourages clinicians to provide topic feedback.
Transparency in updates:
Directly below the author’s name is the date on which the literature was last reviewed and the date on which this specific topic was last updated. You can see which literature was referenced for each topic by viewing the references listed at the bottom of the page for that topic.

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