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For some time, our Faculty Members in the Medicine faculties have been tagging articles that have an immediate impact on clinical practice with a “Changes Clinical Practice” label. Yesterday, we announced our partnership with DynaMed from EBSCO Publishing – just one of the ways we’re expanding our coverage of practice-changing medicine.
In addition to writing evaluations of important articles, Faculty Members assign classifications that identify key features of the articles selected. One such classification is “Changes Clinical Practice”, which identifies research papers, usually systematic reviews or clinical trials, that provide enough evidence to warrant an immediate change in medical practice. Articles with the ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ classification are always accompanied by an expert’s recommendation as to what aspect of practice should change.

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool that covers 3,200 topics. The service monitors the content of over 500 medical journals, as well as sources for guidelines, systematic reviews and alerts affecting medical practice. Back in August, DynaMed introduced the identification of “practice-changing DynaMed updates” and developed a process with McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit in which more than 1,000 practicing physicians from 61 disciplines in 77 countries identify the most important evidence that changes practice.

By partnering with F1000, DynaMed will expand their community of practicing clinicians by 4,000, increasing their scope of assessing the latest medical evidence to highlight research that changes the practice of medicine.

More information can be found in our press release, or view the latest ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ articles.