About Best Practice
Healthcare professionals need fast and easy access to reliable, up-to-date information when making diagnosis and treatment decisions. This is precisely what Best Practice provides.
Best Practice is a completely new concept for information delivered at the point of care.
In a single source we have combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. Its unique patient-focused approach represents a major new advancement in information delivery at the point of care
Best Practice is brought to you by the BMJ Evidence Centre– a division of the BMJ Group that is working to provide healthcare professionals with innovative new products and tools that make evidence useful in practice.
Product information
- A new concept in information delivery, action orientated and structured around the patient consultation
- A gold standardeditorial process including peer review and multiple sign-off
- An unrivalled breadth and depth of coverage (information relating to over 10,000 diagnoses by end of 2009; 5000 at launch) helping healthcare professionals make decisions with confidence
- A constantly updated resource
- A standard structure for each condition including a summary and definition, etiology, epidemiology, through key diagnostic steps and tests into treatment approaches with drugs, guidelines and evidence, finishing with recommendations and outlook for patient follow-up
- Information for patients to support treatment options
- Clinical Evidence‘inside’ brings together the best current evidence with expert guidance
- My Best Practice allowing end users to save searches and bookmarks to specific content
- Ability to upload local guidelines and links
- Full reference links and color images where available
To find out more about Best Practice please click on the links below:
How we produce Best Practice
Best Practice content
Sample content
Three full articles from Best Practice are available for free to allow you to sample the content. Follow the links below to access the full articles:
Chronic cough (Evaluation of)
Adult asthma
Acne vulgaris
(please note that these sample articles will contain links to additional content available only to subscribers)
Best Practice team
- Publishing Director Rachel Armitage
- Business Manager Charlotte Pestridge
Editorial team
- Editor in chief Rubin Minhas
- Managing editor Paul Weller
- Deputy editors Vijay Sharma, Sheila Feit
Senior editors Kathleen Dryburgh, Ameeta Mehta, Zara Quail - Clinical editors Klara Brunhubber, Julie Costello, Candice Jacobson, Iain O’Neill, Carlos Palacio, Louisa Rutherford, Robert Whittle
- Clinical pharmacist editors Adam Mitchell, Helena Delgado Cohen, Kam Mander
- Scientific editor Alan Thomas
Operations team
- Publishing operations manager Nina Blackett
- Project manager Vicki Whadcoat
- Content project manager Lisa Parker
- Production coordinator Lisa Griffin
- Publishing assistants Laura Stephenson, Francesca Brand
- Digital content producer Elin Svensson
- Assistant digital content producer Ross Burnett
- Digital content editing manager Tom Broder
- Digital content editors Vanessa Sibbald, Jen Horwood, David Macnamee, Katie John, Sara Finlay, Anne Lawson
- Information specialist manager Andrea Lane
- Deputy information specialist manager Olwen Beaven
- Information specialists Alex McNeil, Jane McHugh, Sarah Greenley, Mick Arber, Sam Martin,
- Information specialist administrative assistant Varsha Mistry
Informatics Team
- Informatics Analyst Rob Challen
Website team
- Lead developer Keith Marshall
- Senior UI designer Jeremy Gillies
- Developers Kason Miah, Elfrik Metahysa, Zoe Azhdari Radkani, Sangeeta Sharma, Ray Scott, Irene Briones, James Skinner, Kourosh Mojar
- Tester Bala Shanmugam
- Project manager Vicki Whadcoat
Content management system
- Lead developer Michael Blake
- Developers James Skinner, Kourosh Mojar, Chris Phipps
- Electronic publishing specialist Sean Harrop
Marketing information management
- Marketing executive Nicole Jackson
