Assessment topics support questions relating to specific signs, symptoms and abnormal test results enabling you to narrow down the extensive list of potential causes to a manageable shortlist of working diagnoses in just a few seconds. View a free topic example: Chronic cough (Assessment of)

Condition topics give an overview of the theory as well as all clinical aspects, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow up giving you the most comprehensive information on a specific condition. View a free topic example: Community-acquired pneumonia

Diagnostic and treatment guidelines provide a critical counter to information overload, so you can differentiate opinion from evidence and quantify the difference in outcome, including benefits and harms. Best Practice’s evidence-based guidelines have international coverage. They are grouped by geographical area, typical patient case histories, and a full reference list.

Overview topics link to relevant conditions to provide a general synopsis on a group of conditions, for example, acute coronary syndrome. It also acts as a navigation hub with links to associated conditions or assessment monographs. View a free topic example: Overview of Coronavirus

Cochrane Clinical Answers are now linked to Best Practice to give health professionals the confidence to make the best decisions in partnership with patients, even in areas of clinical uncertainty. Evidence is displayed in a user friendly question and answer format, mixing narrative, numbers, and graphics along with key data, including Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and GRADE summaries.

More than 250 medical calculators have been added to BMJ Best Practice better to support healthcare professionals at the point of care. Medical calculators are among the most popular tools healthcare professionals use daily, helping identify and diagnose various conditions.

Procedural videos – introduced in 2017, procedural videos cover essential clinical techniques such as bag-valve-mask ventilation, lumbar puncture, and performing an ECG. A list of equipment, contraindications, indications, complications, and aftercare is included.

Important Updates have been introduced as a direct result of user and customer feedback. These unique visual alerts within topics reassure users that they have the latest information, with key points summarized so that users can see exactly what has changed without having to wade through pages of guidelines.

More than 500 patient leaflets are available. These provide concise, user-friendly summaries to reassure patients and carers and help them make informed, shared decisions with healthcare professionals.

Translation – selected BMJ Best Practice topics are also available in Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

The Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Toolkit available in Best Practice enables users to learn how to evaluate how much weight can be put on study results and how far results from trials can be generalized into routine clinical practice. The EBM Toolkit includes contributions from some of the leading thinkers in EBM and promotes shared decision-making between clinicians and patients.