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Clinical Key: clinical focus for confident decisions

 Do you need an answer quickly? Want to double-check your decision?

Elsevier’s Clinical Key gives you access to quick answers at the point of care. It includes uptodate, evidence-based clinical overviews, clinical calculators, practice guidelines and patient education leaflets.

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You can browse through the content, filter by specialty or topic or use the simple clinical search engine to get straight to the information you need.

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Access

Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff. Access it via the Health Library NHS Resources page or log in here via OpenAthens.

Watch this video for help logging in and activating your account.

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