Mobilising knowledge for quality improvement and learning health systems BMJ Best Practice is a valuable tool for frontline health professionals, helping to improve patient care and reduce costs. Health professionals frequently use this clinical decision support CDS resource to streamline patient management, often resulting in shorter hospital stays and more efficient use of resources. Multiple examples exist where users or organisations have used BMJ Best Practice to drive behaviour change, and there is now evidence from over 40 publications 14 that BMJ Best Practice drives clinical and educational quality improvement. These publications showcase direct improvements from using BMJ Best Practice in primary, secondary, and tertiary care, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, radiologists, lab staff, and allied health professionals. Junior and senior staff have used BMJ Best Practice to drive improvement in various specialties, including general practice, infectious disease, 15 orthopaedics, cardiology, rheumatology, radiology, 16 neurology, and public health. Alongside improving knowledge, awareness, and confidence, BMJ Best Practice helps to verify the standard of care, 17 review and analyse patient safety events, 18 and build the evidence for intervention. 19 The purpose of CDS is to provide evidence based and timely information to clinicians to inform decisions about health care and patient needs. However, it also has the potential to lower costs, improve efficiency of care transitions and promote effectiveness of health care services. 20 This year, as part of the intervention in Georgia that builds on five years of success in helping to enhance case detection and reporting efficiency, we launched our BMJ Group CDS Training Initiative in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) . 21
BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning cover almost all conditions I see regularly in my clinic. There are a lot of resources out there, but BMJ Best Practice gives you exactly what you need when you need it.” Dr Tea Sakhokia , Family Doctor, Meore Nosiri village, Senaki district, Georgia
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