BMJ’s clinical decision support tool BMJ Best Practice was recently selected by Tees Esk and Wear Valleys (TEWV) NHS Foundation Trust to be integrated into its Paris Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. With it, healthcare professionals can easily access the latest clinical information within the patient workflow - helping to improve care.
Healthcare professionals at TEWV can now access BMJ Best Practice by typing in any condition or symptom in the ‘Search BMJ Best Practice’ box at the top of a patient’s records. They are then automatically signed in and taken directly to the relevant results to access step-by-step guidance across the whole of the patient’s care plan. This high level of accessibility will continue through Civica’s Cito system when it is introduced later this year.
There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of integrating clinical decision support into electronic systems that healthcare professionals use. A recent study by Tao et al. showed that the clinical decision support systems (CDSS) integrated with BMJ Best Practice improved the accuracy of clinicians’ diagnoses. Shorter confirmed diagnosis times and hospitalization days were also found to be associated with CDSS implementation in retrospective real-world studies.
All NHS staff and learners in England can use BMJ Best Practice for free, funded by Health Education England (HEE).
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