Best Practice decision support from the BMJ GroupGrafik Best Practice decision support from the BMJ Group
BMJ Group

Genre: Medizin
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2010

Have confidence in your clinical decisions! Check guidelines and evidence, consult expert opinion, brush up on rare conditions, and confirm that you are taking the correct course of action. Quick, easy access is ideal for clinicians, medical students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Authoritative information (from the BMJ Evidence Centre) is structured around the patient consultation, providing quick answers to questions about diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention. An instant second opinion, without the need for checking multiple resources.

The app is compatible for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and includes 20 free sample topics with in-app upgrades of specialty topics. Please note, this app is an upgrade of the existing BP iPhone/iPod app. Content previously purchased will be available on account sign in on all devices.

Feedback on the version 1.0.9 (iPhone):
"Very impressive resource." Declan Byrne, SpR, Geriatric Medicine, Ireland

"The app was well-made and very useful." Thomas Timothy, Medical Student, UK

**The app is based on Best Practice, a point-of-care decision-support website that can only be accessed by subscription (from £78). It combines research evidence and expert opinion with national guidelines to provide practical guidance across a range of clinical topics (see pricing for topics below).**

FINDING QUICK ANSWERS
o Browse / search by symptom or disease
o Sort results by category or common / uncommon
o Browse alphabetically, by category, or program your own specialty
o Zoom into images

MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISIONS
o Rapidly review action-orientated information
o Drill down through:
o summary / overview
o basics e.g. definition, epidemiology, aetiology, pathophysiology and classification
o key diagnostic steps, tests, guidelines
o treatment approaches & guidelines
o prevention guidance
o complications, prognosis & follow-up recommendations
o evidence & reference links

o Bookmark, annotate or email any page

TRUSTWORTHY, COMPREHENSIVE
o Authoritative, peer-reviewed information
o Multiple sign-off editorial process
o Unrivalled breadth / depth of coverage (over 10,000 diagnoses)
o Comprehensively referenced including links to cited full text articles
o Integrated evidence links including evidence level scores
o Embedded PDF guidelines

EASY IN-APP UPGRADES
Your Best Practice app download includes 20 sample topics; you can choose to purchase annual subscriptions to extra topics to meet your specific information needs:

o Ophthalmology and ENT - 92 topics for £9.99
o Psychiatry - 55 topics for £9.99
o Urology and Nephrology - 76 topics for £9.99
o Rheumatology - 63 topics for £9.99
o Dermatology - 96 topics for £9.99
o General surgery and Orthopaedics - 127 topics for £19.99
o Endocrinology and metabolic disorders - 89 topics for £9.99
o Neurology and Neurosurgery - 139 topics of £19.99
o Haematology and Oncology - 104 topics for £19.99
o Cardiovascular disorders and surgery - 89 topics for £19.99
o Gastroenterology and Nutrition - 140 topics for £19.99
o Respiratory, Allergy and immunology - 110 topics for £19.99
o Geriatric medicine - 46 topics for £9.99
o Infectious diseases - 167 topics for £19.99
o Emergency and Critical care medicine - 231 topics for £19.99
o Maternal, child health and Genetics - 238 topics for £19.99

Alternatively, all topics can be purchased for £59.99. For size reasons, initial content package downloads exclude images. Images can be downloaded separately (free) for offline use; otherwise, users have to be online to access an image for the first time.

o iPhone video case study: purchasing additional content
http://bit.ly/gmIsVz
o iPhone video case study: diagnosis
http://bit.ly/haLStY
o iPhone video case study: treatment
http://bit.ly/haLStY
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