Clinical Key: Resource of the week #42

What is it?

Clinical Key is a clinical search engine that allows you to use simple free text to search through thousands of articles to quickly find answers you need.

Key Features

It includes a wide range of content, such as:

Journals
eBooks
Drug resources – BNF and BNFc
Guidelines – including NICE
Patient Education leaflets
Videos

You can also choose to include Medline in your search as well as the Clinical Key content.

When presented with search results you can use the filters to focus your search by:

Source type
Specialty
Date
Authoring organisation

There are additional advanced features such as saving content and creating presentations.

How can it help you?

Clinical Key offers you access to a wide range of full-text material in many different forms. The search facility is a simple search engine which can easily help you to find the right information quickly.

How to access it?

Clinical Key is available to UHNM via their NHS Athens login.

Video demo

I have created a range of videos to introduce you to the main features and to help you to get to grips with the basic functionality. You can find the list of videos on the Health Library YouTube channel.

Get started by watching this video

eTutorial

You can complete our Using Clinical Key etutorial to get a full-list of the help we have available for you.

Or check out my blog posts detailing Clinical Key features.

Did you know?

Clinical Key is also available as an app.

More help?

For more help on using Clinical Key go to our help page.

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