The clinical decision support resource shows impact in reducing medical errors, the third-highest cause of U.S. deaths
February 6, 2018 – Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that a Japanese study published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics found a significant association between use of UpToDate clinical decision support (CDS) and reduced diagnostic errors. Physicians who used UpToDate had a significantly lower rate of diagnostic errors compared with a control group without UpToDate (2 percent versus 24 percent). The authors concluded that “UpToDate use was significantly associated with diagnostic error reduction.” ...
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