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UpToDate is an evidence-based, peer-reviewed information resource providing clinical knowledge summaries. These are comprised of a synthesis of the latest evidence, current literature, and recommendations for patient care. Content is continually updated by UpToDate's physician editors, ensuring that the best evidence is always available.
DynaMed is a cutting-edge clinical decision support tool that combines the most current clinical evidence with guidance from leading experts and a user-friendly, personalized experience. DynaMed contains over 10,000 clinical and drug topics, 37 different specialties available to individually search, and a variety of medical calculation tools.
ClinicalKey provides a comprehensive, trusted, and fast way to ask clinical questions and get relevant answers drawn from one of the largest collections of clinical resources in the world, covering every medical and surgical specialty.
Thousands of major journals and ebooks from Elsevier are also available in full text, alongside practice guidelines, image and video libraries, drug monographs, and patient-ready information.
Bringing together regularly updated research evidence with the knowledge of international experts, BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool that offers a step-by-step approach to help manage patient diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention.
Using a layout that mirrors the patient consultation, this resource also gives advice on symptom evaluation, which tests to order, and the best approaches to treatment.
BMJ Case Reports is an in-depth collection of peer-reviewed cases in all disciplines, enabling healthcare professionals, researchers and others to find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
As well as full access with your Athens account, with EKHUFT's Fellowship code you can also submit your own case reports for possible publication - please contact your Trust Library for the code and more information.
The Royal Marsden Manual has been the definitive guide to clinical nursing skills for over three decades, and aims to set the gold standard for nursing care, providing the procedures, rationale, and guidance required by qualified nurses to deliver clinical effective, patient-focused care with expertise and confidence.
The latest edition includes new Self Care and Wellbeing content, and integrates the 2018 Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency guidance.
Access the world's most medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic rendering of human anatomy, all from within your browser. Features include labelled dissection slides, biomechanics and muscle function animations, annotated illustrations and clinical photographs.
You can also watch videos of surgical procedures, treatment and rehabilitation, and MRI linked to cross-sectional anatomy.
