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 & evidence, consult expert opinion, brush up on rare conditions, and confirm that you are taking the right actions. 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. Coming soon: if you work or study within an institution that subscribes to the app version of Best Practice, your librarian or administrator may soon be able to provide you with a voucher code for an in-app upgrade to 'All topics'. Please note, this app is an upgrade of the existing BP iPhone/iPad app. Content previously purchased will be available on all devices, when you sign in.

iMedicalApps' overall rating of version 1.1.2 (iPad):
* In summary, this application deserves a very high rating due to the wealth of concise, evidence based information.
* Best Practice marks a major step forward for evidence based clinical decision making tools and would be a useful addition for many clinicians.
* The lack of hyperlinking does not tarnish what is essentially a very useful and well designed application.
* There are very few apps out there which combine such detailed information and impressive utility with an attractive functional interface.
Tom Lewis, Staff Writer for iMedicalApps (read the full review at: http://bit.ly/kcjVwr)

Feedback on version 1.0.9 (iPhone):
"Very impressive resource." Declan Byrne, SpR, Geriatric Medicine, Ireland
"The app was wellmade and very useful." Thomas Timothy, Medical Student, UK

**The app is based on Best Practice, a web resource that can only be accessed by subscription (from £78). **

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

MAKING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISIONS
o Rapidly review and drill down through action-orientated information
o Bookmark, annotate or email any page

TRUSTWORTHY, COMPREHENSIVE
o Authoritative, peer-reviewed information
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 download includes 20 sample topics; you can opt to purchase annual subscriptions to extra topics to meet your specific information needs:

o Ophthalmology and ENT: 92 topics, £7.99
o Psychiatry: 55 topics, £7.99
o Urology and Nephrology: 76 topics, £7.99
o Rheumatology: 63 topics, £7.99
o Dermatology: 96 topics, £7.99
o General surgery and Orthopaedics: 127 topics, £15.99
o Endocrinology and metabolic disorders: 89 topics, £7.99
o Neurology and Neurosurgery: 139 topics, £15.99
o Haematology and Oncology: 104 topics, £15.99
o Cardiovascular disorders and surgery: 89 topics, £15.99
o Gastroenterology and Nutrition: 140 topics, £15.99
o Respiratory, Allergy and immunology: 110 topics, £15.99
o Geriatric medicine: 46 topics, £7.99
o Infectious diseases: 167 topics, £15.99
o Emergency and Critical care medicine: 231 topics, £15.99
o Maternal, child health and Genetics: 238 topics, £15.99

Or you can purchase all topics for £59.99. For size reasons, initial content downloads exclude images, which can be downloaded separately (free) for offline use; otherwise, you need to be online to access an image for the first time.

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