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WHSL Clinical Medicine: Clinical Decision-Making Tools

The WHSL Clinical Medicine LibGuide is a valuable resource for students, faculty, and healthcare professionals. They offer access to various materials like textbooks, journals, databases and multimedia resources, all aimed at supporting clinical practice

What are clinical decision support tools?

Clinical Decision Support tools are reference resources designed to support clinical decision-making. Health care professionals utilise these tools to quickly lookup information concerning diagnostic and treatment guidance at the point-of-care with a patient.

Clinical Decision Support tools contain detailed summaries of a wide range of conditions and interventions, supported by synthesized and evaluated evidence-based research and/or peer-reviewed sources. Summaries are curated by health professionals and regularly updated to reflect new evidence. Summaries can include levels of evidence, rating scales or grade recommendations as well as citations back to the original research studies, systematic reviews, or guidelines.

UpToDate

JAMA Evidence

CLINICALKEY OVERVIEWS

Clinicalkey Overviews are available within Clinicalkey (use of the resource off the Wits network requires a username and password and activation of remote access)  

 

Best Practice

 Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, uniquely structured around the patient consultation, with advice on symptom evaluation, tests to order and treatment approach. 

DynaMed

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool contains more than 3,400 topic summaries across all disciplines.