Patient Education in UpToDate

Patient education you and your patients can trust

Developed in-house and edited by the same physicians who edit UpToDate medical topics, UpToDate patient education topics provide information that is consistent with the evidence-based content that clinicians use to make clinical decisions.

UpToDate provides more than 1,500 patient education topics, plus more than 1,000 translated into universal Spanish and Arabic, that facilitate clinician-patient communication. Written at an accessible level and infused with pictures and graphics, these materials educate and promote shared decision making based on medical evidence, clinical recommendations, and patient preference.

Like all content in UpToDate, these patient education resources are updated continuously to reflect the most recent medical literature. All patient education topics are written by professional medical writers, edited to adhere to readability standards, and reviewed by our in-house physician editors for clinical relevance. The Beyond the Basics topics are also reviewed by an external physician author and section editor. Thus, our patient education materials are current, actionable, and evidence-based.

Do you want access to UpToDate and its patient education?

Short-term UpToDate subscriptions are available for patients, family members, and caregivers wanting greater breadth and depth of content than patient education alone.