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Clinical Key for quick access to support clinical decisions and full-text to support in-depth searching

 Clinical Key is a simple, specialist search engine to help you get to the evidence quickly.

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Get quick access to evidence-based information

Make confident clinical decisions using the best evidence - find it quickly on Clinical Key:

  • use the simple, text-predictive search engine
  • browse comprehensive clinical overviews
  • check the latest guidelines from leading organisations, including NICE
  • look for customisable patient education leaflets

Get full-text access to support in-depth searching

Complete your in-depth searching by accessing key full-text content on Clinical Key:

  • ebook texts in key subjects
  • full-text access to journal titles
  • multimedia resources to support learning

Get access

Clinical Key is available to NHS staff working at UHNM:

  • go to our NHS eresources page for the link to Clinical Key
  • log in when prompted using your NHS OpenAthens username
  • activate your account once logged in to access advanced features

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