STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a strategic relationship between First Consult and Cleveland Clinic to provide physician-author support of content for First Consult. First Consult is an evidence-based resource integrated into the clinical workflow to deliver trusted medical information at the point-of-care. Through this collaboration, Cleveland Clinic physicians will now be able to provide ongoing updates and reviews of First Consult medical topics.
First Consult's content is enhanced through the direct contribution of medical topics by Cleveland Clinic medical experts into First Consult's peer-review editorial process. This collaboration expands on an already established relationship between Elsevier and Cleveland Clinic. The Clinic currently provides point-of-care Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit to users of Elsevier's First Consult and MD Consult, a clinical reference tool utilised by more than 2,000 healthcare organisations and 95 percent of all US medical schools.
As physicians increasingly turn to the Internet for clinical information, the relationship between Elsevier and Cleveland Clinic helps ensure that the information they receive is current, relevant and accurate, thus improving overall patient care. Instead of relying on the unproven information available widely on the Internet, Elsevier sees physicians gravitating more to the evidence-based clinical content provided by online tools such as First Consult.
First Consult is projected as an ideal resource for quickly answering questions related to screening, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the majority of the medical conditions responsible for office visits and inpatient admissions. First Consult is also available as an iPhone/iPad app, available through free download from the Apple App Store.
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