{"id":3158,"date":"2017-05-24T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:08:10","slug":"calculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/calculators\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ partners with EBMcalc to better support doctors at the point of care"},"content":{"rendered":"<em>BMJ, 25 May\u00a02017<\/em><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBMJ, one of the world\u2019s leading medical knowledge providers, has teamed up with EBMcalc to significantly expand coverage of medical calculators in its clinical decision support tool <strong>BMJ Best Practice<\/strong>.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMedical calculators are among the most popular tools used by healthcare professionals in their daily practice, helping to identify and diagnose a range of conditions.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThis partnership strengthens BMJ\u2019s support for busy clinicians, by providing them with trusted, evidence-based tools to make the best decisions in partnership with patients.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBMJ Best Practice gives doctors fast and easy access to the latest information when making diagnosis and treatment decisions. Updated daily, it draws on the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Louise Crowe<\/strong>, Director, BMJ Knowledge said: &#8220;BMJ Best Practice already has a strong evidence base. We are delighted to partner with EBMcalc and continue to improve our support for busy clinicians at the point of care by providing access to the highest quality, evidence-based tools for use in their daily practice.\u201d<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAn independent review of clinical decision support tools published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (1)\u00a0ranked <strong>BMJ Best Practice<\/strong> equal first for breadth of disease coverage, editorial quality, and evidence-based methodology.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n[Ends]<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Notes to Editors:<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n(1) Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information: An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries Journal of Medical Internet Research \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2016\/1\/e15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vol 18, No 1 (2016): January<\/a><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>About BMJ<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBMJ is a healthcare knowledge provider that aims to advance healthcare worldwide by sharing knowledge and expertise to improve experiences, outcomes and value. For a full list of BMJ products and services, please visit bmj.com","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMJ, 25 May\u00a02017 BMJ, one of the world\u2019s leading medical knowledge providers, has teamed up with EBMcalc to significantly expand coverage of medical calculators in its clinical decision support tool BMJ Best Practice. Medical calculators are among the most popular tools used by healthcare professionals in their daily practice, helping to identify and diagnose a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestpractice.bmj.com\/info\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}