We make it easy for librarians to support healthcare professionals in their clinical practice and research

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:

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)
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
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
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
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.

Supporting you to get the most from your BMJ Best Practice subscription

BMJ Best Practice can help librarians support evidence-based medicine, and teach information literacy skills to healthcare professionals in their institutions.

BMJ Best Practice offers a range of features for administrators including usage reports and COUNTER-compliant statistics, which librarians can use to monitor usage and demonstrate the value of the resource to their institutions. This can help librarians make informed decisions about resource allocation.

What better way to prepare students for clinical practice than to provide access to this point of care tool that they are very likely to use throughout their career.

Andy Doyle

Information Specialist, Library Services team, Aston University.

Why we are your best choice for clinical decision support

BMJ Best Practice is a comprehensive and evidence-based clinical decision support tool. It is designed to support healthcare professionals in making informed decisions at the point of care, anytime, anywhere.

It is easy to use and empowers healthcare professionals to stay current with the latest medical research and guidelines while delivering high-quality care across a wide range of medical conditions.

Access anywhere

The right information, whenever and wherever you need it

Earn CME points

Earn CPD/CME credits while searching for answers to your clinical questions

Evidence-based

Updated daily, BMJ Best Practice draws on the latest evidence-based research

Trusted content

Designed for use at the point of care with every feature developed with our users

Rising to the comorbidities challenge

One in three adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions and most patients in the acute setting have more than one medical condition. Our Comorbidities Manager is fully integrated into BMJ Best Practice, the clinical decision support tool that helps professionals treat the whole patient.

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. Follow the link below to find out more.

Treating each disease in a patient as if it exists in isolation will lead to less good outcomes and complicate and duplicate interactions with the healthcare system.

Christopher J M Whitty