Essential Clinical Resources- Evaluating UpToDate and Epocrates for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Hello Ngozi

 Essential Clinical Resources- Evaluating UpToDate and Epocrates for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Hello Ngozi

Great work with your post! Your description of the importance of clinical resources in practice was very accurate. Derived benefits include enhancing the quality of care, improving accessibility, prevention and controlling diseases, and, most importantly, enabling the use of evidence-based practices (Mancini, 2021). Your description of the two clinical resources that you have used in practice was very insightful. The Up-to-date clinical resource is mainly a subscription service that offers professionals updated and researched information for clinical practice. It contains clinical expressions in the form of topic analysis and can be accessed online or offline using smartphones. It mainly covers internal medicine and its subspecialties and addresses clinical issues in the form of reviews. Although there is a free application, a subscription to the premium application is required for full access to all benefits. Reviews facilitate the decision-making process by inferring proven evidence-based practices.

On the other hand, Epocrates is an easily accessible, decisive and extensive tool for researching medications and treatment plans. It conveys the best current and safe, treatment options for practice (Endo et al., 2021). It helps save time because of its ease of use and accessibility. It covers a large span of clinical decision support systems ranging from the medical calculator for medications to specific reference tables for acute conditions. It has a very simple and convenient search tool where users can look up information they require for practice easily. The search tool uses keywords associated with illnesses or conditions needed for treatment or management. Epocrates is widely used because it provides information about the history, diagnosis, affirmation, and treatment plans and procedures for various diseases. It is a very important tool in nursing that supports decision-making processes and the overall practices within a setting.

References

Endo, J., Peebles, J. K., & Lloyd, R. (2021). Geriatric Dermatology. In Geriatrics for Specialists (pp. 355-379). Springer, Cham.