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C is for Clinical Decision Support

Do you want to make confident clinical decisions? Moving into a new clinical area and need a quick refresher of the latest evidence and recommended guidelines?

We have the tools to help you.

BMJ Best Practice

This is an essential evidence-based, clinical decision support tool to help you make confident decisions. It is available to all NHS OpenAthens users. You can search for a wide range of conditions, and access overviews, theory, diagnosis, treatment and management as well as calculators, patient leaflets and videos.

Clinical Key

You can use this specialist clinical search engine to quickly find clinical overviews, calculators and guidelines to support your clinical decisions. Complete more in-depth searching for full-text articles, topic summaries, videos and ebooks. Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via OpenAthens.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

NHS staff working in primary care can browse the easy-to-read, evidence-based, best practice recommendations for conditions encountered in primary care, by using the Clinical Knowledge Summaries. No login required.

Oxford Handbooks Online Collection

Quick, easy-to-read, evidence-based information on a range of key specialties from the Oxford Handbook collections. All NHS staff can access these online ebooks, using your NHS OpenAthens username.

Access

Get access to all the NHS-based resources from the NHS Resources page on our website.

Register for your NHS OpenAthens username to get access to NHS online resources.

More help

Complete our Finding NHS Resources online tutorial for more information about resources available to NHS staff. 

Check our Online Guides and Support pages for guides, videos and how-to help using our most popular resources.

For more help accessing NHS online resources contact Cheryl, your eResources Librarian at c.kent@keele.ac.uk. 

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