Point-of-care decisions need to be made quickly, and they need to be reliable. You need on-the-spot access to a tool that brings expert opinion, guidelines and evidence together in a single, easy-to-use interface.

You need Best Practice from the BMJ Evidence Centre.

Best Practice is a completely new concept in decision-support information. Its step-by-step approach is structured around the patient consultation, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. Best Practice gives you a second opinion in an instant.

 
Best Practice

Key features:

  • A new concept in information delivery, action orientated and structured 
    around the patient consultation
  • A gold standard peer review multiple sign-off editorial process
  • An unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage (information relating 
    to over 10,000 diagnoses by end of 2009; 5,000 at launch) helping 
    healthcare professionals make decisions with confidence
  • A constantly updated resource
  • A standard structure for each condition including a summary and 
    definition, aetiology, epidemiology, through key diagnostic steps and 
    tests into treatment approaches with drugs, guidelines and evidence, 
    finishing with recommendations and outlook for patient follow up
  • Information for patients to support treatment options
  • A drug formulary for quick checking of prescription guidance
    Clinical Evidence ‘inside’ brings together the best current 
    evidence with expert guidance
  • My Best Practice allowing end users to save searches and bookmarks 
    to specific content
  • Ability to upload local guidelines and links
  • Full reference links and colour images where available
  • The ability to change the language of the interface and navigation 
    to selected local languages

 

To download our "Getting started with Best Practice" information sheet, which provides you with quick and easy tips about how you can get the most out of Best Practice website, please click here:

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 To download the Best Practice brochure, please click here:

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Best Practice is an international service; for its North American counterpart, please see BMJ Point of Care.