Download Best Practice

ICSTI-Swets (Moscow)
23rd-24th November 2010
BMJ Group - a brief introduction to our EBM resources:
Best Practice 2010 & new BMJ Journal titles
On behalf of:
Steve Thorpe – Regional Manager Europe
The BMJ Group
Integrating evidence to
help organisations
deliver higher quality,
safer and more efficient
healthcare
Improving patient care
through innovation since 1840
Hello
We’re not ‘only’ a Journal . . !
• One of the world's leading providers of trusted medical
information, evidence-based knowledge and learning
support for healthcare professionals, medical students,
researchers and patients
• Mission to improve the outcome for patients
• Subsidiary of the British Medical Association
• Over 350 staff based in locations around the world
• Reaching international customers in >35 countries
BMJ Group - Content and Services
Evidence based products and services
which help eliminate uncertainty by
providing independent, thorough and
robust assessment of the latest evidence
Supporting the research and current
awareness needs of clinicians and
researchers across multiple clinical
specialties
Improving the quality of patient care by
helping clinicians stay up to date with
training, practice, appraisal, revalidation
and exam preparation
• Best Practice
• BMJ/BMJ.com
• BMJ Learning
• Action Sets
• OnExamination
• Clinical Evidence
• Essentials titles including Gut,
Heart, Thorax, ARD, ADC
• Best Health
• Evidence-based journals
• Evidence Centre services
• Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin
• International Forum on Quality &
Safety in Healthcare
• BMJ Masterclasses
• Growing portfolio of 30+
Journals covering a
diverse range of specialities
• Essential internationally
respected clinical Journals
including Gut, Heart &
Thorax
• Reaching over 3.1m visitors
online each month
• Full online archive back to
Volume 1 issue 1
New BMJ Group Journals for 2010-2011
•
•
•
•
Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Healthcare (JFPRH)
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
Acupuncture in Medicine (AiM)
Veterinary Record / In Practice
The BMJ Group
How can we help you?
?
?
?
?
?
Improve outcomes
Reduce errors
Raise quality
Reduce costs
Train your medical students
BMJ Evidence Centre
Validating medical knowledge to improve clinical outcomes
• A hub for evidence-based
medicine tools and services
• Providing leadership, guidance
and support for medical
professionals, policy makers
and patients
• A range of tools that fit
evidence and expert opinion
around clinical workflows
More than ten years of publishing evidence
based reviews
Recognised as the gold standard of
evidence-based medicine
• Systematic reviews of 3,300
interventions
– identifying, appraising, grading and
summarising the latest and most
authoritative biomedical evidence
– in the context of over 670 specified
clinical situations
– monthly updates
– free ‘Evidence Updates’ email alerts
Intuitive & user-friendly decision-support
delivered right at the point of care.
Structured around the patient consultation, it covers
diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Your instant second opinion.
What is BMJ Best Practice ?
 Best Practice is a decisionsupport source combining latest
research evidence, guidelines and
expert opinion
 Presented as a step-by-step
approach, covering prevention,
diagnosis, treatment and
prognosis
 Its patient-focused approach
represents a major new
advancement in information
delivery at the point of care
 Includes 200+ patient
information leaflets
What is BMJ Best Practice ?





The ability to change the language of
the interface and navigation to
selected local language
Links to the drug formulary - BNF
(UK Only) or Martindale - included
for quick checking of prescription
guidance
Clinical Evidence ‘inside’ brings
together the best current evidence
with expert guidance
Advice on symptom evaluation,
treatment approach and test ordering
International perspective,
customisable for local needs
Best Practice covers the following
categories:







Highlights: Summary / Overview
Basics: Definition / Epidemiology / Aetiology / Pathophysiology / Classification
Prevention: Primary / Screening / Secondary
Diagnosis: History & Examination / Tests / Differential / Step by Step / Criteria
/Guidelines / Case History
Treatment: Details / Step by Step / Emerging / Guidelines / Evidence (powered
by BMJ Clinical Evidence)
Follow-up: Recommendations / Complications / Prognosis
Resources: References and Links / Images / Online resources / Patient
Leaflets/Credits
Use Best Practice on your mobile phone
(“BP Mobile”)
http://bp.bmjgroup.mobi/
http://bp.bmjgroup.mobi/
An instant second opinion for point-of-care decisions
– For use by primary and
secondary care professionals /
medical students
– Since its launch in Feb 2009 Best
Practice is now used by more
than 100,000 practitioners in over
250 institutions in 25+ countries
throughout EMEA & APAC
Best Practice – New features 2010
•
Some of the key features that have been recently added or updated:
•
Hyperlinks within notes - You can now add hyperlinks into the ‘Notes’ section that
sits within the monograph pages. Institutional administrators can also use this feature
to link notes on behalf of their organisation.
•
Dates added to Clinical Evidence reviews - You will now be able to see the
publication date and search date for all Clinical Evidence content within Best Practice.
These dates will be shown if you access the stand alone Clinical Evidence content
and also if you access Clinical Evidence via the ‘Evidence’ tab from within in the
individual Best Practice monographs.
•
Guidelines added to Assessment monographs - A ‘Guidelines’ tab has been
added to the Assessment monographs in Best Practice. Institutional administrators
can also add their own guidelines to these Assessment monographs on behalf of their
organisation.
Best Practice – New features 2010
•
BP Search Enhancements:
•
'Auto-suggest' drop-down search. Prompts users with monograph titles, displayable
synonyms and drug names.
•
Updated search engine library further increases reliability and performance
•
Adjusted synonym processing leads to better relevance ranking
•
Ability to search by ICD-10 and ICPC-2 drug codes, producing list of matching
monographs.
•
'Clinical Evidence' topic headings now included as a possible search result
Best Practice – New features 2010
•
Video and sample screenshots removed from home page, to greatly improve
performance speed. Video now has its own page, linked from "Take a Tour".
•
Brand new 5 minute BP video demo on the new “Take a Tour” page as above,
replacing the original launch demo
•
‘Clinical Evidence’ content accessible directly from the Best Practice homepage
•
Nominated National Administrator can upload information using 'Add Notes'
functionality (originally requested by Helsebiblioteket in Norway)
•
‘Treatment’ tab displays changed: "step 1 of 2"; "step 2 of 2“ removed & changed to
"First select your patient group" and "Now select a treatment" to avoid possible end
user confusion
The UK market leader with
growing international reach
Helping today’s and tomorrow’s
doctors with training, exam
preparation, improving knowledge
and assessing needs
BMJ Learning services
BMJ Learning
– Independent, peer reviewed online
learning with 124,000 UK users and
55,000 international users
– Customisable interface to reflect local
curriculum and regulatory requirements
– More than 700 modules for doctors,
nurses, students, managers, GPs
BMJ Masterclasses
– Clinical and management events for primary
and secondary care clinicians
– Over 17,000 delegates attended
OnExamination
– Online exam preparation for undergraduates
and postgraduates - over 132,000 medical
professionals have used OE tools for their
revision
Customised Learning Solutions
Blending technology and content into a customised platform
•
Dynamic site tailored to the needs of
individual customers reflecting specific
needs, e.g. organisation specific
guidelines; logos; local curriculum
•
Specially commissioned content
•
Seamless links between Best Practice
& BMJ Learning Plan & Record
•
Usage and performance trends
provided geographically
OnExamination – exam preparation
•
Over 33 million questions answered
since January 2009
•
40,000 Q&As to support major
international postgraduate and
undergraduate exams
•
Will you pass? Your score
benchmarked each week against
other candidates.
ICSTI-Swets (Moscow)
Thank You
Please send me any questions either via Swets or to the
email address shown below:
Steve Thorpe – Regional Manager Europe
sthorpe@bmjgroup.com