Health Education England has extended their national subscription to BMJ Best Practice to include the Comorbidities Manager for all NHS staff and learners in England.
In the UK alone one in three patients admitted to hospital as an emergency have five or more conditions. This poses a significant problem for healthcare systems. Clinical guidelines only focus on single conditions, but failure to treat the whole patient leads to worse clinical outcomes, and longer lengths of stay. The global COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the problem with over 60% of patients admitted to intensive care units having comorbidities.
The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities.
Health Education England provides BMJ Best Practice as a practical tool to help NHS staff and learners meet the changing and more complex needs of patients, and maximize NHS resources, together resulting in better care for patients.
BMJ Best Practice is the only Clinical Decision Support tool that has been procured at a national level for England. Please visit bestpractice.bmj.com for further information.
All NHS staff and learners in England can use BMJ Best Practice for free, funded by Health Education England (HEE). Find out more at bmj.com/hee or log on at bestpractice.bmj.com. NHS staff click ‘Log In’ then select ‘OpenAthens’. Once logged in, create a personal account to download the app
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