BMJ Best Practice available for all NHS staff via OpenAthens login

This is a clinical decision support tool. BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Steps to access BMJ Best Practice

1. Visit bestpractice.bmj.com and click ‘Log in’. 
2. You will be presented with an ‘Access through your institution’ button. 
3. When selected, you will be asked to search for your institution. Please type and search for ‘NHS in England’. 
4. Sign in using your OpenAthens username and password. (Sign up for OpenAthens here https://www.openathens.net/nhs_users.php if not already registered)
5. Now create your personal account. This will allow you to sign in directly using these details. Your personal account also allows you to log in to the app and to track your CPD/CME activity and download certificates.

Download the BMJ Best Practice app

All your answers, all in one app. Unlimited access anywhere, anytime. It’s easy to find answers quickly on or offline with the BMJ Best Practice App.

BMJ Best Practice

 

BMJ Best Practice subscription

Following trials in different trusts, we’re delighted to confirm that HEE has agreed to add the Comorbidities Manager to the national BMJ Best Practice subscription, initially for 18 months from October 2022 to March 2024.

Comorbidities Manager is designed to inform treatment decision making in scenarios where a patient is admitted with an acute condition but also has one or more chronic conditions. Given the prevalence of comorbidities and the importance of treating the whole patient, we think this will be a valuable addition.

 For clinical staff, educators and trainees there are Two short videos about Comorbidities Manager and some descriptive text have been added to https://www.bmj.com/company/hee/

For all our Junior Doctors take a look at this handy video

https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FINAL-junior-doctor-induction-1080p-2.mp4

Clinical Decision Support Tools available to support your practice

Due to low usage we have now ended our subscription to Dynamed. However some great alternative resources are still available to you. 

BMJ Best Practice

This is a clinical decision support tool very similar to Dynamed. BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Watch the video about BMJ Best Practice here 

How to Access

1. Go to https://bestpractice.bmj.com/
2. Enter your OpenAthens username and password and click ‘Sign in’
3. If you are a new user, you will need to now register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account. If prompted for an institution enter "NHS in England". Use your personal account to download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

We also have a subscription to Clinical Key:

 Clinical Key

Clinical search engine with access to many full-text journal articles, topic summaries and ebooks. It has information on conditions, procedures, drugs, guidelines, patient information and more.  Take a look at our guides to Clinical Key here so you can get the best out of this resource: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/training/onlineguidesandsupport/clinicalkey/

Clinical Knowledge Summaries can be found on the NICE website:

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

Clinical Knowledge Summaries aim to provide primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice 

Over 370 topic summaries are arranged both alphabetically by health topic with focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care, and by specialty.

Electronic Resources

 

The Health Libraries provide you with access to a wide range of resources to help you to find the information you need, including databases, clinical decision-making tools, drugs reference tools, exam support, guidelines and procedures, patient information, topic summaries and more.

All the resources are listed on the NHS Resources page on the website for the Health Library (CEC, Royal Stoke):

• Go to the NHS Resources page for an A-Z list of resources available
• Check the types of resources available by completing our NHS Resources etutorial

It is recommended that you also sign up for an OpenAthens password which is needed to access many of the resources in full.

Contact the Health Library at County if you need help using any of the resources.

Clinical decision support tools

 Staff at UHNM have access to clinical decision support tools  Dynamed and BMJ Best Practice. You can set up accounts to either or both of these resources using your OpenAthens username and password.

Dynamed

DynaMed, a clinical evidence-based summary service has been purchased by UHNM Health Libraries to support your clinical practice. 

Watch these two short videos: DynaMed NHS intro & Drug Interaction Checker on how to utilise DynaMed and sign up for a free personal account here + download our free app via the App Store/Google Play store.

BMJ Best Practice

Watch the video about BMJ Best Practice here 

How to Access

1. Go to https://bestpractice.bmj.com/
2. Enter your OpenAthens username and password and click ‘Sign in’
3. If you are a new user, you will need to now register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account. If prompted for an institution enter "NHS in England". Use your personal account to download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

If you would like to know more or would like more help accessing and using these resources, please contact the library: library@uhnm.nhs.uk .

BMJ Best Practice

BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool currently available across the NHS in England and is available on desk top PCs and as an app on mobile technologies. The resource consists of a multi-award winning app and website providing evidence-based answers to clinical questions, as well as the latest research, and guidelines .Evidence summaries include step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. Users can also access: 

• patient information, 
• procedural videos, 
• medical calculators, 
• drug information  
• CME/CPD certificates.

Steps to access BMJ Best Practice

1. Visit bestpractice.bmj.com and click ‘Log in’. 
2. You will be presented with an ‘Access through your institution’ button. 
3. When selected, you will be asked to search for your institution. Please type and search for ‘NHS in England’. 
4. Sign in using your OpenAthens username and password. (Sign up for OpenAthens here https://www.openathens.net/nhs_users.php if not already registered)
5. Now create your personal account. This will allow you to sign in directly using these details. Your personal account also allows you to log in to the app and to track your CPD/CME activity and download certificates.

Visit making the most of your access to BMJ Best Practice and scroll down for guidance, training webinars and video clips on getting full use out of the support tool.