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Clinical Key – short-cuts in clinical overviews to give you the information quickly

 You can quickly access evidence-based, concise and focused information on key healthcare topics via Clinical Key clinical overviews.

Clinical overviews can help you to:

  • Find clinical answers quickly
  • Refresh your knowledge on conditions
  • Search for best practice
  • Find current clinical guidelines

All to support your clinical decisions and help you to provide best care to your patients.

Search results including clinical overviews now provide you with short-cuts to key sections of the overviews, such as Summary, Diagnosis, Workup and Treatment

Screen-shot showing the clinical overview short-cut options

Once you are browsing the clinical overview, use the menu options to go straight to the section you need. Content often covers:

  • Key points
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Complications & prognosis
  • Screening and prevention
  • References

Screen-shot showing the clinical overview menu structure on the left-hand-side

How to access

NHS staff at UHNM can access Clinical Key via their NHS OpenAthens username. You’ll find links to all our NHS-based resources on our NHS Resources page.

Get your NHS OpenAthens username by registering online.

More Help

Go to our Clinical Key help page for more help on using Clinical Key.

Contact the eResources Librarian, Cheryl, for more help accessing eresources or setting up your OpenAthens account; email c.kent@keele.ac.uk.

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