About Best Practice
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About Best Practice
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.
In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach and 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 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.
Take a tour of Best Practice
For an overview of the key features of Best Practice and how it can help you at the point of care, take our Video Tour today.
Free Trial
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 7-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
Product information
- Action-orientated and structured around the patient consultation
- Gold standard editorial process including expert peer review and multi-step sign-off
- Unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage helping healthcare professionals make decisions with confidence
- Continuously updated with multiple to topics each day to reflect the best available evidence.
- Novel standardised navigation 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 leaflets for patients to support shared decision making
- Choice of integrateddrug formularies for quick checking of prescription guidance
- Clinical Evidence ‘inside’, bringing together the best current evidence with expert guidance
- Each page linked to BMJ portfolio for easy tracking, recording and planning of CPD/CME
- My Best Practice allowing end users to save searches and add notes and bookmarks
- Ability for institutional administrators to upload local notes, guidelines, patient leaflets and links
- Full reference links and colour images where available
- Interface and navigation available in 16 selected local languages
To find out more about Best Practice please click on the links below:
How we produce Best Practice
Best Practice content
Case Studies
The Best Practice team
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.
New features
Best Practice has recently been updated with a series of new features. To see a full list of these new features please click here.
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, please visit Best Practice Mobile.
Best Practice and Differential Diagnosis iPhone Apps
Have confidence in your clinical decisions! Check guidelines and evidence, consult expert opinion, brush up on rare conditions, and confirm that you are taking the correct course of action with the Best Practice iPhone app - click here for more information.
Differential Diagnosis from the BMJ Group enables healthcare professionals to reach an accurate diagnosis quickly and efficiently by providing essential mobile decision support information from both Best Practice and Clinical Evidence. To find out more about our new Differential Diagnosis iPhone application please click here.
