Unique, trusted clinical information and tools
Answering the evolving needs of healthcare professionals
The clinical information in BMJ Best Practice is exactly right for generalists, junior doctors and the wider multidisciplinary team – covering over 90% of the most commonly presenting conditions in both the primary and secondary care settings.
We are the only point of care tool that supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities.
As a true point-of-care tool, the latest clinical information is accessible easily and quickly via our website or app.
Our guidance is uniquely structured around the patient consultation with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering and treatment approach.
Exclusive to BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice collaborates with healthcare and academic institutions globally. We work to understand their needs and the needs of our users, to shape and develop essential features.
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Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Toolkit teaches healthcare professionals how to evaluate study results, showing how far these results can be generalised into routine clinical practice – with contributions from leading EBM thinkers. It also promotes shared decision-making between clinicians and patients.
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Treatment algorithms provide fast evidence-based guidance on management recommendations for specific patient groups.
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Cochrane Clinical Answers enable confident decision-making with patients, even where there’s clinical uncertainty. Evidence is displayed in a Q&A format; while narrative, numbers and graphics show population, intervention, comparison and outcomes.
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Comorbidities Manager helps hospitals to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, avoid unnecessary treatments, and reduce length of stay.
For those times when there’s no-one available to ask, or for when you are 95% sure yourself but just want the reassurance of seeing it in black and white, BMJ Best Practice is hugely
helpful.
Rich in features
Every day, BMJ Best Practice plays a crucial role in shaping clinical decisions with our comprehensive clinical topics and tools.
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Assessment topics support questions relating to specific signs, symptoms, and abnormal test results, narrowing down potential causes to a shortlist of working diagnoses – in seconds.
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Condition topics provide an overview of theory and clinical aspects, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up – for comprehensive information on specific conditions.
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Overview topics provide a general synopsis on a group of conditions, for example, acute coronary syndrome, and also act as a hub with links to associated conditions or assessment topics.
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Each BMJ Best Practice topic contains a list of international diagnostic and treatment guidelines relevant to the topic, grouped by geographical region.
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BMJ Best Practice has integrated a carefully curated selection of case reports that cover rare diseases and uncommon conditions and presentations. Case reports bring practice to life and provide fast access to information from a trusted source.
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Our award-winning, highly rated app provides access to BMJ Best Practice anywhere, any time. Even offline.
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Over 250 medical calculators help identify, diagnose and treat a range of conditions.
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Evidence tables provide easy access to evidence layers in the context of specific clinical questions. Linked evidence scores, based on GRADE, increase transparency on the quality of the evidence.
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Important Update alerts summarise key points so it is easy to see what has changed without wading through detailed guidelines.
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Procedural videos cover more than 55 clinical procedures such as bag-valve-mask ventilation, lumbar puncture, and performing an ECG, with lists of equipment, complications, indications, contraindications, and aftercare provided for each demonstration.
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More than 500 patient leaflets provide concise summaries to help patients and their carers make informed decisions with healthcare professionals. Every leaflet is reviewed by the BMJ patient panel.
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Integrate your drug formularies to BMJ Best Practice to give quick access to detailed information on dosing, availability, formulations, side effects, and contraindications.