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Q4 Releases
Easily Access Content Directly from the Search Box
To help you answer your drug-related questions even faster, you can now jump to drug information directly from the search box. Simply type a drug name to view the suggested drug information topic, including commonly-viewed sections within drug information.
Patient Perspective Topics
UpToDate is pleased to offer new topics where patients share their own experiences with challenging diseases. These patient-authored topics provide unique insights into the patient care journey that can help clinicians better understand the patient experience and gain awareness of their concerns, fostering improved clinician-patient communication that can lead to improved care. These topics are eligible for CME credit.
All patient perspective authors collaborate with our editors to ensure the topics are clinically useful. The first topics available focus on Parkinson’s disease, chronic urticaria, iron deficiency anemia, and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). To find a topic, search for "patient perspective" in UpToDate.
Patient perspective topics coming soon include: asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, sickle cell anemia, pregnancy loss, celiac disease, knee osteoarthritis, and peripheral artery disease. We plan to continue adding to this collection of patient-authored topics.
Dosing by Indication Content Design Updates
Coming December
To help reduce the time you spend looking for dosing content that's relevant to your patient’s specific indication, you'll find new drop-down menus within a drug monograph for dosing by indication. Please note this feature will be included in select drug information topics.
Q3 Releases
Patient Education in Arabic
August 2021
To further support effective patient education, UpToDate now offers The Basics patient education topics in Arabic, providing patients with convenient access to trusted evidence-based topics from UpToDate in their native language.
August 2021
Get to a recommendation more quickly with additional, more concise information at each decision step within the interactive guide of an UpToDate Pathway.
Q2 Releases
Graphic Lightbox: Easily Find Graphics Within Topics
April 2021
With the new Graphic Lightbox feature, you can easily find graphics related to your clinical questions directly in topics that you’re already reviewing. When viewing a graphic within a topic, simply click on “Graphics in this topic” in the top right corner of the page – and you will be taken to all related graphics that can help to answer your clinical questions.
Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Enhancements
April 2021
To help support you in treating patients having adverse drug reactions, especially when time is of the essence, we’ve made several enhancements to Adverse Reactions content within drug information topics in UpToDate:
View the new Adverse Reactions (Significant): Considerations field within a drug information topic, here.
Explore new tables in the Adverse Reactions field within a drug information topic, or from the Quick Access Panel on the search results page.
Q1 Releases
New Boards Added to Fulfill MOC/CC Requirements
March 2021
Several state medical boards and certifying boards now accept credit earned from researching clinical questions in UpToDate to fulfill respective state licensure and MOC/CC requirements, now including:
MOC-eligible CME credits can be directly submitted to the Board within an UpToDate account.
View a complete list of participating state medical boards and certifying boards that accept CME earned in UpToDate for MOC/CC requirements, along with those boards that participate in electronic direct credit reporting.
Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
March 2021
UpToDate has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for a maximum of 50 external (category 1) CPD credit(s) for the period 1 February 2021 through 31 March 2023.
To redeem CME credits through the Federation, select “Federation of the Royal Colleges of the UK” under the CME Credit Type section in your Settings. Watch this brief video to review how to update your CME settings within UpToDate.
Complete CME Reflection Requirements in Real-Time
January 2021
Save time when redeeming CME credits by completing the reflection requirement as you review UpToDate topics. With real-time, in-topic reflection, you can contemplate a topic while the information you’ve researched is fresh in mind and then complete the credit redemption process when it’s convenient for you. Look for the 
in the top right navigation of the topic review to complete your CME reflection in real-time.
