Surely, at the least it proves a lack of consistency at the highest echelons of the NHS Knowledge Management service. As on the one hand they do not renew the subscription to Clinical Evidence for the NLH, but decide to jump into bed with the Prodigy system and on the other hand the team behind Map of Medicine, which is “slowly” being cascaded across the country, have branded BMJ Clinical Evidence as the “Gold Standard”. So its good enough for MoM, but obviously not for the NLH!

 

 

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BMJ Group press release: New partnership delivers ‘gold standard' evidence at the point of care

The BMJ Group has teamed up with the Map of Medicine to supply an evidence surveillance service to underpin the Map of Medicine for clinicians across the NHS.

The Map of Medicine is a web-based tool that provides national and local ‘pathways’ of best practice for over 380 medical conditions. It presents the diagnostic and treatment information that clinicians need when they’re caring for patients in an intuitive, flow-chart format.

Under the partnership, the BMJ Group’s Knowledge team of clinical and scientific editors will provide a continuous evidence surveillance service for Map of Medicine pathways, based on identification and critical appraisal of emerging research and systematic reviews, new international guidelines, and drug safety alerts.

New evidence will be matched with existing pathways so that the Map of Medicine can be updated accordingly. This will ensure that clinicians can be confident that by following the pathways, they are practising in a manner that is consistent with the latest research evidence.

“With greater emphasis on patient safety and standards of care, the need for good quality evidence-based information to support care pathways and decision support tools is greater than ever,” says Dr David Tovey, Editorial Director at the BMJ Group. “This partnership is an important step towards improving patient care directly through evidence-based knowledge.”

Neil Ferguson from the Map of Medicine said: “The BMJ Group has been a leader in the field of evidence-based medicine since 1999 and is respected internationally for its integrity, independence, and high quality products. Their process for searching through, appraising and reviewing latest studies is second to none and we are delighted to have their expertise behind ‘the Map’. With their help, we look forward to delivering the highest quality evidence-based information to our users.”

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Notes to Editors:
The Map of Medicine, in partnership with the NHS National Library for Health, is a knowledge management tool designed to:

• Help NHS organisations agree and adopt local best-practice according to current and future configuration of healthcare services.
• Enable patient care pathways to be customised with local clinical and administrative notes to better organise interactions between primary and secondary care.
• Improve patient care by saving clinical staff time keeping up to date with the latest best practice and evidence based clinical guidelines.

The clinical knowledge in the Map of Medicine is visually presented in more than 380 patient ‘journeys’ starting from an initial patient visit. The content covers all major diagnostic areas including accident and emergency, internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, oncology and palliative care.  

The BMJ Group is one of the world leaders in medical publishing. The Group publishes and distributes leading journals covering all major medical specialties and Clinical Evidence, the international source of the best available evidence for effective health care, freely available to over one million clinicians worldwide, and translated into 7 languages. In the UK Clinical Evidence is freely available to health professionals in Scotland and Wales, and via subscription in England.

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