BMJ Best Practice is a valuable resource for librarians who support healthcare professionals in their clinical practice and research.

Here are five examples of how BMJ Best Practice currently supports librarians across the globe:

1. Providing continuous access to the latest clinical information: Librarians who provide BMJ Best Practice as a resource are ensuring healthcare professionals have access to the latest clinical information anywhere, anytime. The award-winning BMJ Best Practice app works offline, so is perfect in areas where internet access is unreliable. BMJ Best Practice has the highest ranking CDS app* (*App Store and Google Play rankings as of August 2023)
2. Supporting evidence-based medicine: Librarians can use BMJ Best Practice to promote evidence-based medicine in their institutions by providing healthcare professionals with access to the latest reliable clinical information. Librarians can also use BMJ Best Practice to train clinicians on how to use evidence-based resources to support their clinical decision-making
3. Training and education: Librarians can use BMJ Best Practice to develop or supplement training sessions or educational programs for healthcare professionals on topics related to evidence-based practice and clinical decision-making
4. Information literacy: Librarians can use BMJ Best Practice to teach information literacy skills to healthcare professionals. BMJ Best Practice provides a range of educational resources, including an Evidence-Based Medicine toolkit, videos, and case studies, which can be used to teach clinicians how to critically evaluate and apply clinical information in their practice
5. Patient education: Librarians can promote patient education through the use of BMJ Best Practice’s patient leaflets. These help patients understand their conditions and treatments.

Does your institution already have access? Count on us to help ensure you get the most from your subscription.

We help you support evidence-based medicine and teach information literacy skills to healthcare professionals in your institutions.

A librarian resource hub provides the tools and resources you need to introduce and integrate BMJ Best Practice at your institution successfully.

Monthly webinars can support training needs.

One source for Local guidelines. Administrators can upload local guidance and tag guidelines to Condition and Assessment topics.  Homogenize care protocols and ensure users have access to the latest hospital or local guidance at the point of care.

Tips to help medical educators save time and supplement lesson plans

Demonstrate value – Administrators can register for an admin account to monitor engagement via detailed usage reports and COUNTER-compliant statistics to gain insights that help make informed decisions about resource allocation.