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Medicine: Point-of-care tools

Point-of-care tools

BMJ Best Practice

The Library is delighted to offer BMJ Best Practice as a clinical decision support tool. BMJ Best Practice "rethinks decision-support information with a step-by-step approach that is structured around the patient consultation, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention". To get started, download the user guide.

About

Teaching hospitals and medical schools around the world rely on BMJ Best Practice to:

  • Help prepare students for clinical practice, with the most recent, trusted information on the most-commonly occurring conditions, backed up by evidence and with links to guidelines

  • Give students confidence during clinical placements – remote, mobile and offline access ensures they always have the information they need, even where wi-fi is unavailable

  • Support case-based learning – highly structured content, real-world examples and easy navigation makes Best Practice an ideal teaching tool

  • Provide cost-effective clinical decision support for students whether at university, at home or in the hospital

BMJ Best Practice mobile

The BMJ Best Practice app is available as part of our subscription to BMJ Best Practice. It is not available for sale separately.

Access via an institution: When accessing BMJ Best Practice on the web, you will be prompted to set up a ‘personal account’. The account login details can then be used to download the app for free on the App or Google Play stores.

The first time you register the app you will need to be on the University network. Once registered (and the content downloaded) you can use BMJ Best Practice anywhere. Once you authorize access to the app - i.e. synchronize your individual BMJ account with the university’s access - you should have access for 365 days, without having to re-synchronize it. Once the 365 day period has elapsed they will need to re-synchronize their access.

 

 

 

 

The Library is delighted to offer DynaMed as a clinical decision support tool. Independent studies have ranked DynaMed higher than other clinical reference services in its category. Study findings have shown that DynaMed is the most current evidence-based point-of-care reference database.

DynaMed topics include concise summaries and detailed recommendations based on the most current evidence. Clinicians and students can view the Overviews & Recommendations section of DynaMed topics to get a quick summary of the topic and recommended actions based on the most current evidence. Clinicians can easily see the levels of evidence and guidelines behind each recommendation.

Mobile. The DynaMed app is free with every subscription and is compatible with iOS and Android devices.

About

DynaMed provides current clinical evidence to assist your decision-making for patients.

For a clinical reference resource to be truly evidence-based, conclusions must be based on the best available evidence. That means the evidence must consistently and systematically be identified, selected, evaluated, summarized and synthesized, as well as continuously updated. The DynaMed evidence-based methodology applies the following strict protocols:

  • Identifying the evidence
  • Selecting the best available evidence
  • Critical appraisal
  • Objectively reporting the evidence
  • Synthesizing multiple evidence reports
  • Basing conclusions on the evidence
  • Updating daily

Every article considered for inclusion in DynaMed is processed using this system, and the system ensures the integrity of the conclusions.

DynaMed case examples

The following videos demonstrates practical patient situations:

Prescribing opioids for chronic pain: a DynaMed Plus® Case Challenge: (Length 1:57) 

Pulmonary embolism - a Dynamed Plus® Challenge: (Length 3:16)

DynaMed Plus mobile

There is information available on how to download and install the DynaMed mobile app on your iOS and Android device as well as how to search and navigate the app. Install the DynaMed Mobile app 

There are two options to reauthorize the account.
1) The device must be connected to your Institutional network.
2) Or you need to create a Dynamed Personal account to reauthorize the account.

As the campus is closed, you need to create Dynamed personal accounts to reauthorize your Dynamed mobile account.

Please refer to the FAQ below to create Dynamed personal account.

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Signing-up-for-a-Personal-Account-to-access-DynaMed?language=en_US