Align dosing decisions across care teams

Medication and dosing is increasingly complex, and clinicians need access to the right tools to help make fast decisions. At complex organizations, clinicians across the care journey—physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and more—must have access to the same, evidence-based dosing information to help reduce adverse outcomes and improve safety.

Dosing guidance is included in UpToDate® through drug databases and interactions, and aligned with UpToDate® Lexidrug™. With UpToDate Enterprise Edition, health systems can access advanced features that can help improve speed-to-answer for more complex, patient-specific dosing scenarios like kidney dosing and mental health transitions.
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Standardize dosing decisions

Consistent dosing decisions across care teams can help reduce care variation and improve patient safety.

Improve clinician workflow

Help clinicians focus on patient care by providing tools within their workflow to support complex dosing questions.

Evidence-based guidance

Dosing tools are regularly updated and aligned with the UpToDate evidence-based editorial process.

Expanded dosing tools for care teams

RX Transitions for mental health

Support antidepressant switching

Mental health is increasingly addressed in primary care and in screenings. Despite not having specialized training in mental health, primary care providers deliver 60% of mental healthcare and write 79% of the prescriptions for antidepressants.

With RX Transitions for Mental Health, clinicians can manage complex mental health care with fast, personalized, step-by-step guidance for transitioning patients between antidepressants.

  • Avoid risks of adverse reactions and relapse with tailored tapering and titration schedules
  • Empower shared decision-making with customizable plans aligned to patient needs and preferences
  • Support efficient documentation and help improve confidence in primary care mental health 
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Kidney Dosing

Support pharmacists in reviewing complex medication profiles

Medication dosing is increasingly complex. Help pharmacists access appropriate medication dosing with quick, consolidated renal dosing information across medications and dialysis types.

  • Avoid risks of adverse drug events with expert-reviewed, dialysis-specific dosing recommendations
  • Save time and cognitive effort with a single view of renal dosing across CKD, AKI, and dialysis
  • Help standardize care and support confident prescribing even when pharmacy support is limited

Dosing Calculators

UpToDate solutions provide evidence-based calculators to help providers make faster decisions in areas such as risk assessment, dosing adjustments, and treatment guidance.

By streamlining complex calculations, clinicians can:

  • Access tools to guide care plans and appropriate medication dosing based on factors like renal function or opioid conversion.
  • Help improve care delivery by identifying quick guidance so they can focus on patient care
  • Stay aligned with the best available clinical evidence as calculators are developed and maintained through our industry-leading editorial process.
     
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Expert Insights

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Adjusting drug dosing for patient-specific factors
Drug manufacturers often recommend a streamlined, one-size-fits-all dose. But every patient is different, requiring a more nuanced, individualized approach to drug dosing.
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Real-world solutions for shouldering the burden of mental healthcare
As Julie Frey outlines, primary care physicians are playing an ever more critical role in their patients’ mental healthcare. However, providing effective guidance in mental health can be incredibly challenging.
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