Evidence-based information for diagnostic decision support

Mentor on the web

For years over 50 per cent of UK clinicians have relied on Mentor Library for instant knowledge, supporting clinical governance. Mentor on the web is now available online for all healthcare professionals - no matter what clinical system they use.

Content includes the Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine - developed to include additional primary care content from experienced medical authors, the Oxford handbooks of Clinical Medicine and Specialties, Clinical Evidence as well as travel guidance developed by EMIS with validated data supplied by the Hospital of Tropical Diseases.

Mentor on the web is included free of charge with the EMIS clinical system, and is also available to purchase separately by healthcare professionals and users of alternative clinical systems.

Mentor on the web is the most comprehensive and widely used diagnostic decision support tool in the primary healthcare market. Its popularity is down to the following key features:

• It's an immediate reference guide, providing peer-reviewed, automatically updated reference material, including the Oxford Handbooks of Medicine and Clinical Specialties, Patient Information Leaflets, Drug Information Leaflets, Clinical Evidence, plus much more
• The system is excellent for diagnostic decision support, offering meaningful and relevant differential diagnosis suggestions based on a single condition or combination of symptoms
• The intelligent and intuitive search facility that underpins Mentor on the web enables users to search on multiple terms, synonyms, commonly used phrases and close spelling in the case of mistyping for instant and accurate answers
• Immediate reference and diagnostic support are closely inter-related within Mentor on the web, helping to promote consistent and uniform patient treatment at the point of care, supporting clinical governance as an integral part of healthcare provision
• Mentor on the web includes an in-built Personal Development module to track users' learning requirements and fulfilment as part of their appraisal preparation. It contains extensive links to relevant on-line journal articles, Medline and evidence-based reference sites as a good starting point for personal revision and research

For further information, please telephone 01329 828 533.