BMJ Best Practice

BMJ Best Practice provides step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention, updated daily using evidence-based methodology combined with expert opinion, and is ranked among the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide.

The step-by-step structure is the distinguishing choice. Most clinical references organise content by topic, which answers what is known about a condition, whereas structuring it as a sequence answers what to do next. Those are different questions, and the second is the one a clinician is actually asking mid-consultation.

Combining robust evidence-based methodology with expert opinion is an honest position rather than a compromise. Evidence is incomplete for a great many real clinical situations, and a tool that only reports where trials exist leaves clinicians unsupported precisely where they most need guidance, so naming expert opinion as a distinct ingredient is more transparent than blending it in silently.

Daily updating matters given how fast guidance changes, and BMJ publishes research on the tool's effectiveness rather than asserting it, which is consistent with the organisation's wider position in evidence-based medicine. The stated purpose is enhancing quality of care and patient outcomes by giving practitioners easy access to the most up to date medical information on diagnosis, treatment and management of medical conditions. Pricing is not published, with licensing by individual or institution.