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BMJ Best Practice gives you evidence to support clinical decisions at point of care

 BMJ Best Practice is a key tool to help you make confident, clinical decisions and provide best care to your patients.

Key Evidence

BMJ Best Practice has a user-friendly design, making it easy for you to access evidence-based information on a wide range of clinical conditions and diseases. Content includes recommendations, guidelines and best practice covering background, diagnosis, treatments, prognosis, clinical calculators and more. Some conditions have co-morbidities linked. Patient information leaflets help you support your patients.

Content is regularly updated and always referenced.

Get Access 

BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username to access all the full-text content and features.

Link to BMJ Best Practice, along with other NHS resources, via our NHS resources web page.

You can also access BMJ Best Practice on the go, via your mobile device. Go to our help page for instructions on downloading the app.

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For more help using BMJ Best Practice:

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