CONCLUSIONS: An electronic clinical knowledge support system (UpToDate((R))) was associated with improved health outcomes and shorter length of stay among Medicare beneficiaries in acute care hospitals in the United States. Additional studies are needed to clarify whether use of UpToDate((R)) is a marker for the better performance, an independent cause of it, or a synergistic part of other quality improvement characteristics at better-performing hospitals.
PMID: 18565788 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).