1. By Kevin Anderson

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3. Why Use UpToDate.com?  UpToDate provides answers to thousands of clinical questions  Advice from providers with experience makes this an invaluable clinical decision support system to providers from other institutions and helps to reduce the chance of mistakes being repeated more than once

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5. Purpose for Presentation  To make students with an interest in health sciences aware of a rich database of evidence-based information and clinical decision support about drugs, parasites, illness, dosage, etiology and epidemiology, treatment plans, preventative care and thousands of invaluable topics in health care