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"Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched nationwide open access to UpToDate, providing nearly 80,000 physicians and nurses with access to its acclaimed clinical decision support resource. Starting in January 2014, the five-year national access partnership with Wolters Kluwer Health provides UpToDate to healthcare professionals at over 250 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 100 private hospitals, military hospitals, national guard hospitals, universities, the Saudi Digital Library, as well as all clinics and primary care centres in the Kingdom. Throughout the Kingdom, access to trusted, evidence-based medical information covering more than 10,000 clinical topics in over 20 specialties will be available to every Internet user via several methods: the Ministry of Health Portal (http://www.moh.gov.sa), the UpToDate website (http://www.uptodate.com/contents/search), the UpToDate Mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows 8, and directly within hospitals’ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems that support UpToDate integration. UpToDate® is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical knowledge system which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate’s more than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesise the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality. More than 750,000 clinicians in 158 countries rely on UpToDate, and more than 30 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced length of stay, adverse complications and mortality."