About Best Practice

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Healthcare professionals need fast and easy access to reliable, up-to-date information when making diagnosis and treatment decisions. This is precisely what Best Practice provides.

Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care.
In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. Its unique patient-focused approach represents a major new advancement in information delivery at the point of care

Best Practice is brought to you by the BMJ Evidence Centre – a division of the BMJ Group that is working to provide healthcare professionals with innovative new products and tools that make evidence useful in practice.

Free trial

You can try Best Practice for free. We offer both institutional and personal trials, allowing you to discover for yourself the possibilities of this ground-breaking resource.

Institutional free trial
To set up an institutional free trial please contact us:
consortiasales@bmjgroup.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6693

Personal free trial
Individuals can register online for a 30-day personal free trial. To access your trial you will require a BMJ MyAccount. You can register or use an existing account below, and then follow the steps to set up your free trial.

Register now for a personal free trial

Take a tour

We recommend that you view our video demonstration of the key features of Best Practice. This video can be found on the bottom left of the home page.


Product information

  • A new concept in information delivery, action orientated and structured around the patient consultation
  • A gold standard editorial process including peer review and multiple sign-off
  • An unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage (information relating to over 10,000 diagnoses by end of 2009; 5000 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
  • Interface and navigation available in selected local languages

To find out more about Best Practice please click on the links below:

How we produce Best Practice
Best Practice content

Click here to read the Hampshire Primary Care Partnership case study

Click here to read the feedback from our clinical users 

Best Practice mobile

Best Practice Mobile includes the full content of Best Practice and is optimised for access on internet enabled mobile phones, PDAs or handheld devices. Access to Best Practice Mobile is included at no extra charge with all personal or institutional subscriptions.

For more information visit Best Practice Mobile.

Sample content

Four full articles from Best Practice are available for free to allow you to sample the content. Follow the links below to access the full articles:

Chronic cough (Assessment of)
Adult asthma
Acne vulgaris
Swine influenza
Due to recent interest and to keep you up to date on clinical features and treatment options, we have made the Swine influenza article freely available on this website

(please note that these sample articles will contain links to additional content available only to subscribers)


Best Practice team


Publishing Director Rachel Armitage

Business Manager Sue King


Editorial team

  • Editor in chief Charles Young
  • Deputy editors Sheila Feit, Maria Kouimtzi
  • Senior editors Kathleen Dryburgh, Damian Pattinson, Zara Quail
  • Clinical editors Allan Brewer, Jennifer Corrigan, Julie Costello, Sue Daly, Helena Delgado Cohen, Rebecca Gemmell, Candice Jacobson, Sabreena Malik, Ameeta Mehta, Justine Mitchell, Iain O’Neill, Carlos Palacio, Dinah Parums, Roger Pepin, Louisa Rutherford, Emma Scott, Vijay Sharma, Christina Siomos, Alan Thomas, Graham Towse, Justin Trevino, Jo Whelan
  • Clinical pharmacist editors Julie Adkins, Irene Chiwele, Kam Mander, Adam Mitchell, Rita Moreira de Silva, Rajeshree Sooria
  • Submissions manager Tannaz Aliabadi-Zadeh
  • Copy editing manager John Hilton
  • Copy editors Tom Broder, Anne Federer, Sara Finlay, Tricia Lawrence, Anne Lawson, David McNamee, Martyn Oliver, Teresa Pritlove, Carl Shuker, Grant Stewart
  • Proof readers Lois Bright, Vivienne Button, Mary Sheridan, Christina Winters

Production team

  • Digital production manager Nina Blackett
  • Operation services manager Julia Stimpson
  • Publishing assistants Laura Stephenson, Lisa Griffin, Emma Bruun, Tracy South
  • Web publishing assistant Kieran Naish
  • Content analyst Stuart Moorhouse

Technology team


Website

  • Lead developer Keith Marshall
  • Senior UI designer Jeremy Gillies
  • Developers Kason Miah, Elfrik Metahysa, Zoe Azhdari Radkani, Ray Scott, Irene Briones, James Skinner, Kourosh Mojar
  • Tester Ayem Yesufu
  • Project manager Christina Davies

Content management system

  • Lead developer Michael Blake
  • Developers Irene Briones, James Skinner, Kourosh Mojar
  • Electronic publishing specialist Sean Harrop