Medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that a consortium of the libraries of the five London medical schools (Imperial College London, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, St George's University of London and UCL) has purchased a range of evidence based information resources from the BMJ Group. Key among these is BMJ Clinical Evidence.
BMJ Clinical Evidence is claimed to be one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. It provides a set of evidence based medicine facilities to help busy clinicians manage their patients as effectively as possible. It sums up what is known - and not known - about more than 500 medical conditions and over 3000 treatments.
Several of the medical schools have also bought BMJ Best Treatments, which is designed to give patients access to information on which treatments work and which don't, based on the latest available medical research. Most of the medical schools have also decided to subscribe to the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), which is owned by the BMJ Group and is independent of both the pharmaceutical industry and the government.
Access to the BMJ information resources is not restricted to the Higher Education staff and students who are members of the consortium libraries. Wherever possible, access to these resources has also been made available to the staff of a number of affiliated NHS Trusts to which the libraries are significant providers. This includes Guy's and St Thomas', Imperial College Healthcare, the Royal Free, Barts and the London, St George's, UCL Hospitals NHS Trusts, as well as several PCTs and mental health Trusts.
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