Ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide*, BMJ Best Practice provides step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Updated daily using robust evidence-based methodology and expert opinion, BMJ Best Practice provides you with access to the very latest clinical information.
Evidence of effectiveness
BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool that provides healthcare professionals with continually updated, reliable information on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of medical conditions.
The tool is designed to improve quality of care and patient outcomes by providing practitioners with easy access to the latest medical information.
The impact of BMJ Best Practice can be seen in its widespread adoption by healthcare professionals across the world. The tool is used by healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries, and it has been shown to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes in numerous studies.
“Best Practice provides an easily accessible evidence-based management plan that facilitates more confident and precise decision making.”
Tracian James-GoulbournePhysician, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Who does BMJ Best Practice help?
BMJ Best Practice is a generalist point of care tool that is particularly useful for residents, multidisciplinary team members (such as nurses, pharmacists, and Physician Associates), specialists working outside of their specialty, and General Medicine practitioners.
BMJ Best Practice also supports medical students to develop their clinical reasoning skills and prepare for clinical rotations.
This means that BMJ Best Practice occupies a unique position as a Clinical Decision Support tool.
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BMJ Best Practice for medical students
BMJ Best Practice supports users to transition from education to clinical practice.
Medical students around the world rely on BMJ Best Practice to:
- Help them prepare for clinical practice with the most recent, trusted information on the most commonly occurring conditions, backed up by evidence and with links to guidelines
- Give them confidence during clinical placements – remote, mobile, and offline access ensures they always have the information they need, even where wi-fi is unavailable
BMJ Best Practice for clinicians
BMJ Best Practice gets you to the latest evidence-based information quickly and accurately.
Structured around the clinical workflow and updated daily, BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Whether you’re with a patient or researching treatment decisions more deeply, BMJ Best Practice is your trusted, instant second opinion.
BMJ Best Practice for nurses
Access clinical guidelines and patient care leaflets all in one place.
BMJ Best Practice is one of the world’s most trusted resources for day-to-day practice, used by multi professional care teams worldwide.
- Search by detailed symptom or a broader clinical topic
- Share information and discuss treatment options with patients using our accredited patient leaflets
- Stay current and support your professional development. Record reading with automatic CME/CPD tracking to support revalidation and appraisals
- Access an instant second opinion.
BMJ Best Practice for paramedics
BMJ Best Practice supports the multi-disciplinary approach to medicine management.
Our easy-to-navigate, evidence-based information ensures practitioners will find what they need quickly and efficiently. With BMJ Best Practice you can:
- Rely on an award-winning app, even when you’re offline
- Have confidence in your clinical decisions with the latest evidence and expert opinion, updated daily and linked to international guidelines
- Share information and discuss treatment options with patients using our accredited patient leaflets.
BMJ Best Practice for pharmacists
BMJ Best Practice supports the multi-disciplinary approach to medicine management.
Within each topic we have treatment algorithms that list medications for patient and sub-patient groups. With BMJ Best Practice, you can:
- Have confidence in your clinical decisions with the very latest evidence and expert opinion, updated daily, and linked to international guidelines
- Connect with your preferred drug database
- Share information and discuss treatment options with patients using our accredited patient leaflets.
BMJ Best Practice for librarians
BMJ Best Practice makes it easy for librarians to support healthcare professionals in their clinical practice and research.
Our easy-to-navigate, evidence-based information ensures users will find what they need quickly and efficiently. With BMJ Best Practice you can:
- Provide continuous access to the latest clinical information
- Support evidence-based medicine
- Facilitate training and education
- Improve information literacy
- Promote patient education
BMJ Best Practice for medical schools
BMJ Best Practice supports your students as they make the transition from education to clinical practice.
Teaching hospitals and medical schools around the world rely on BMJ Best Practice to:
- Help prepare their students for clinical practice, with the most recent, trusted information on the most-commonly occurring conditions, backed up by evidence and with links to guidelines
- Give students confidence during clinical placements – remote, mobile and offline access ensures they always have the information they need, even where wi-fi is unavailable
BMJ Best Practice for hospitals
Providing high quality care in a cost-efficient way remains the greatest challenge for hospitals and healthcare systems around the world.
BMJ Best Practice helps healthcare institutions ensure better, safer care by providing their multiprofessional teams with fast access to the latest information to support their clinical decisions.
Best Practice is proud to work with many of the world’s most highly-regarded medical institutions including leading institutional medical schools, international ministries of health, public and private hospitals and large health networks.
BMJ Best Practice for primary care
In a time-pressured environment like primary care, fast and accurate diagnosis and decision making is vital.
With extensive coverage of the most commonly-occuring conditions, Best Practice can be relied on to answer your clinical questions.
- Support your doctors with the very latest evidence and expert opinion, updated daily, and linked to international guidelines
- Help your doctors discuss treatment options with patients. Best Practice has over 500 patient leaflets; all reviewed by our Patient Panel.
BMJ Best Practice for Telehealth
Pairing BMJ Best Practice with your Telehealth services will facilitate patient-clinician engagement.
Our easy-to-navigate, evidence-based information ensures practitioners will find what they need quickly and efficiently during the online consultation.
- BMJ Best Practice is relevant to doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers in your medical call centers.
- BMJ Best Practice can be integrated into your clinical system or electronic health record.