You can help your patients
understand their condition better and improve their own outcomes by providing,
or pointing them to, good quality patient information.
Whether you want to create your own bespoke patient information or find something ready-made, take a look at the options below.
BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering
evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Browse
for patient leaflets by selecting this option from the top menu bar. You can
then either browse the A-Z list or search for the condition. Once presented
with the information you can either print it out or download it as a PDF file.
- BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username.
Clinical Key (UHNM staff only)
Clinical Key is a clinical search engine, covering a wide range of
full-text sources. It offers you quick and easy access to evidence-based
content. Select the Patient Education option from the main search page. You can
then either: browse the A-Z list, search the list for the condition you want or
focus the list by specialty.
When you print the leaflet you can select the language and text size as
well as add extra content such as your services' contact details or any
additional instructions.
- Clinical
Key is
available to UHNM staff only. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username.
- Read our blog post Clinical Key and Patient Information for step-by-step instructions on accessing patient education leaflets.
Clinical Knowledge Summaries
Clinical Knowledge Summaries offer primary care healthcare staff access
to evidence-based summaries of a wide range of conditions and diseases. Some of
the content will direct you to patient information sources in the Management
chapter. Select or search for the condition you are interested in. Select the
management chapter from the left-hand-size. Look for patient information
options.
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries are freely available on the Internet.
TRIP
TRIP is a healthcare-based search engine, searching across a range of
good quality, evidence-based information sources. Enter the keywords for the
condition or disease you are interested in. Then focus the results by selecting
Patient Information from the left-hand-side. Select the resource you are
interested in from the search results.
- TRIP is freely available on the Internet. However, extra content is available if you log in using your NHS OpenAthens username.
Access resources
The resources we recommend may be freely available online, require a personal login or need an NHS OpenAthens username for full-text access. You will find links to all our resources on our NHS resources web page.
Learn more…
Find out about more
resources available to NHS staff by completing our etutorial Finding NHS Resources.
Complete our online tutorials, book a training session or take a look at our
Information Skills for Health blog
to learn more about accessing resources and completing an information search.
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Need more help?
Contact the Health Library for help accessing or using online
resources.
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