Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that UpToDate® figures prominently in Kurashiki Central Hospital's efforts to provide patients with world-class healthcare. The teaching hospital, which cares for 800,000 people in Japan's western Okayama Prefecture district, also uses the evidence-based clinical decision support resource to advance training and development of its junior physicians.
According to Dr. Toshio Fukuoka, Chief Director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center, the Department of General Medicine, and Director of the Department of Research and Medical Education at Kurashiki Central Hospital, UpToDate content is written and arranged in a way that reflects how physicians think and practice. With more than 10,000 clinical topics, UpToDate is one of the most useful resources for physicians - not only for practicing but also for clinical case studies, research and presentations.
The response from doctors hospital-wide has been very positive. In a recent internal survey, 94 percent of physicians said UpToDate improves the quality of patient care and 86 percent report that it helps them find a clinical answer faster. With its comprehensive review of medical journals, UpToDate has proven to be a useful resource for easily finding graded recommendations, saving clinicians precious time while seeing patients.
