Elsevier ClinicalKey
The Clinical Search Engine.
Overview
ClinicalKey is a clinical knowledge solution from Elsevier designed to provide comprehensive answers to clinical questions. It includes access to thousands of medical textbooks and journals, procedural videos, practice guidelines, drug monographs, and patient education materials. It is designed to serve physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and students.
✨ Key Features
- Comprehensive search of Elsevier's content library
- Access to leading medical textbooks (e.g., Gray's Anatomy, Cecil Medicine)
- Full-text medical journals
- Procedural videos
- Practice guidelines
- Drug monographs
- ClinicalKey AI conversational search
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Breadth of content, including flagship textbooks and journals
- Functions as a comprehensive clinical search engine rather than a topic-review resource
- Strong collection of procedural videos and multimedia
Unique Value: Provides a single point of access to Elsevier's vast and trusted collection of clinical content, from foundational textbooks to the latest research.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Used by academic medical centers and hospitals as a primary digital library and clinical search tool.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Quick, point-of-care lookups requiring a single synthesized answer
- Differential diagnosis generation
🏆 Alternatives
Where UpToDate provides synthesized topic reviews, ClinicalKey provides direct access to the underlying primary and secondary literature (journals, books), catering to deeper research needs.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Institutional tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: N/A
🔄 Similar Tools in Clinical Guidelines Software
UpToDate
An evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource....
DynaMed
A clinician-focused tool designed to facilitate efficient and evidence-based patient care....
VisualDx
A web-based decision support system that uses images to aid in the diagnosis of dermatologic, infect...
Isabel Pro
A diagnosis checklist tool that helps clinicians broaden their differential diagnosis and avoid diag...
Zynx Health
Provides evidence-based clinical decision support solutions that help healthcare organizations impro...
Glass Health
An AI-powered platform for medical knowledge management and clinical decision making....