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  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. Main resources to help you to find patient information: BMJ Best Practice   BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Select the Patient Leaflets 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 acces...

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 condit...

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Additional DynaMed clinical evidence summaries can be accessed through the DynaMed link under the Clinical Knowledge Summaries . DynaMed is normally a subscribed resource (American bias), which has been made freely available in the UK only when linking through the Clinical Knowledge Summaries. Additional evaluated information is being added to the Intute website, please click here to view the latest articles and podc...

The National Library for Health's Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) provide evidence based summaries and patient information on selected conditions. The following topics have recently been converted from the Prodigy format: Aphthous ulcer Conjunctivitis — allergic Cough — acute with chest signs in children Gout Immunizations — pneumococcal

Looking for the best in evidence-based summaries? The National Library for Health ’s Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide the information required to make evidence based-decisions. This months updates include Infertility , Lacerations , Meniere's disease , Otitis externa and Palliative cancer care — nausea & vomit . If you can’t find the condition you are searching for why not try searching DynaMed for additional resources.