Tag: BMJ Best Practice

Resource of the Month

The Knowledge and Library Hub

The Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff to high quality knowledge
and evidence resources all in one place. Full access is free with your Open
Athens credentials.

The Knowledge and Library Hub includes:

  • Journals, books and databases
  • Clinical decision making resources including NICE guidelines and BMJ Best Practice
  • Policy and management information and research literature
  • Resources purchased nationally and locally
  • One-click links to full-text, request a copy or contact an NHS library

If you do not already have an Open Athens account, you can complete your own registration here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ or get in touch with the library for support: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.

BMJ Best Practice

Funded by Health Education England, free to all NHS staff and learners

BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Click here and enter your OpenAthens username and password to sign in. If you are a new user, you will need to register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account.

You can use your personal account to download the free BMJ Best Practice app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

BMJ Best Practice

Clinical decision-making support just a tap away

BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision-making resource provided free by Health Education England to all NHS staff in England and particularly useful for medical students and newly qualified and junior doctors.

Rated as one of the best support tools worldwide, BMJ Best Practice includes step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention as well as medical calculators, how-to videos and patient information leaflets.  Content includes clinical expertise from over 1,600 international authors and 2,500 peer reviewers which means you have up to date references available at your fingertips, anywhere, any time of day or night.

Watch the animation or find out more at bmj.com/hee where you can register using your OpenAthens log in details. Once registered you can also download the mobile app.  If you need help getting access please email your Trust library team – they’ll be happy to guide you! academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Download the poster for more information and to share with your colleagues.

BMJ Best Practice Procedural Videos

Watch procedural videos on essential techniques

Refresh your memory of over 25 common clinical procedures. BMJ Best Practice procedural videos give you a quick reminder on the equipment, contraindications, indications, complications and aftercare needed. Watch from your desktop or on the BMJ Best Practice app.

Watch the videos here. You will need to log in with your OpenAthens username and password.

Resource of the Month

BMJ Best Practice

BMJ Best Practice is a fantastic resource to support with clinical decision making. The resource is available online and accessible as a mobile app. Simply login with your Open Athens details to access all materials from treatment options to clinical calculators and patient leaflets. Simply search the condition or symptom you are hoping to treat to find evidence based support.

Please feel free to download and share our poster in your departments across the Trust:

BMJ-Best-PracticeDownload

For any support with your Open Athens account, or to set one up please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Covid 19

Updates on the Covid 19 Pandemic

Update on COVID-19 pandemic.
BMJ Best Practice; 2020.

(Epidemiology: updated data on children and pregnant women; updated risk factors (solid organ transplant). Aetiology: updated data on viral shedding in immunocompromised people. Emerging: WHO Solidarity trial results published; NIH recommends against casirivimab/imdevimab as standard of care for patients with mild to moderate disease; UK trial starts investigating use of colchicine. Prevention: first vaccine authorised for use in the UK; WHO updates guidance on mask use in community settings.)

Mask use in the context of COVID-19.
World Health Organization (WHO); 2020.

(This document provides updated guidance on mask use in health care and community settings, and during home care for COVID-19 cases. It is intended for policy makers, public health and infection prevention and control professionals, health care managers and health workers. Updated 1 December 2020.)

COVID-19: vaccination programme guidance for healthcare practitioners.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.

(Guidance for healthcare practitioners about the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme. 4 December 2020: Update report: details on page 3.)

COVID-19 vaccination: women of childbearing age, currently pregnant, planning a pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.

(Information for all women of childbearing age, those currently pregnant, planning a pregnancy or breastfeeding on coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination.)

Covid-19 Insight: issue 5.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.

(In this month’s report, we build on the learning about good practice in infection prevention and control that we discussed in the last issue by focusing on care homes. We also present the key findings from a survey to understand the experience of inpatients who were discharged from hospital from April to May 2020, when the first wave of the pandemic was at its height.)