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Spotlight on ... ​UpToDate

UpToDate is now available to all staff and students at East Cheshire NHS Trust!
What is it?
UpToDate®, an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, is now available to all East Cheshire NHS Trust staff and students.
UpToDate includes:
  • Evidence-based medical content that is researched, created, and continually updated by over 6,700 leading physicians
  • Summaries and treatment recommendations for over 11,000 topics in 25 specialties
  • “Practice Changing UpDates” highlighting critical research that changes how you treat patients today
  • “What’s New” summaries of important new findings by specialty
  • Over 465,500 references, with links to PubMed and the full-text articles where our subscriptions permit
  • Medical calculators
  • Patient information covering over 1,500 topics
  • A select drug database of more than 6,000 unique drug entries (in partnership with Lexicomp®) including adult, pediatric, and international drugs and a drug interactions tool that provides graded adverse reaction information between drug-to-drug and drug-to-herb interactions.

Who is it for?
We are pleased to be able to provide access to UpToDate for ALL our staff and students as part of our continuous effort to encourage evidence based decision making and improving patient care.

How can I access it?
You can access it at https://www.uptodate.com/login using the OpenAthens Log In option (if you don’t have an Athens account you can register here  on the library website). We hope to be able to offer password free access from within the Trust very soon…
Short video tutorials to help you get started with UpToDate can be found on the UpToDate website at www.uptodate.com/home/help-demo.

​​For more information please email the Library or call 01625 661362.

Library news

Our catalogue is now available off-site!
The library catalogue is now accessible anywhere, anytime!  You can check which books, e-books and other resources we have available.
For more information please email the Library or call 01625 661362.

How to find us

We are located on the 2nd floor of New Alderley House, on the Macclesfield District General Hospital site. Directions and maps can be found here or by clicking the map below. Parking information is available on the East Cheshire NHS Trust website.
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Library & Knowledge Service
2nd Floor, New Alderley House
Macclesfield District General Hospital
Victoria Road
Macclesfield
​SK10 3BL
Tel: 01625 661362
Email: ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net
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