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ClinicalKey Essentials

Enhance clinical practice through informed, confident decisions

Free trial converts to paid subscription after 15 days and renews automatically.

ClinicalKey streamlines access to consistent, evidence-based information to help clinicians. From quick answers at the point of care to leading full-text reference material, it delivers trusted content to support clinicians and those in training. Cl ...view more

ClinicalKey streamlines access to consistent, evidence-based information to help clinicians. From quick answers at the point of care to leading full-text reference material, it delivers trusted content to support clinicians and those in training.

ClinicalKey Essentials subscription allows you to explore all the functionality of ClinicalKey with our core resources. Check out the core resources in the product description below.

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1 Month

$29

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Why you'll love ClinicalKey

Deep Insights You Need

Your access to the most in-depth and latest advances in clinical knowledge from Elsevier’s Journals and reference books

Quick, credible answers at point of care

Quickly confirm diagnosis and treatment information

Specialized clinical content

Specialty-specific medical coverage with authoritative content for medical and surgical specialties.

ClinicalKey Essentials supports your practice with images, clinical calculators, drug information, patient education handouts, practice guidelines, and other materials rooted in current, relevant knowledge so you can make confident, informed decisions—anytime, anywhere, in any patient situation.

Core Resources include:

  • Clinical Overviews
  • Drug Monographs
  • Full-Text Books:
  • Step-by-step procedural videos and articles
  • Clinical calculators
  • Image collection
  • Practice guidelines
  • Customizable Patient education handouts
  • MEDLINE abstracts
  • Clinical trials

Includes these full-text books:

  • Goldman’s Cecil Medicine
  • Ferri’s Clinical Advisor
  • Meyler’s Side Effects of Drugs
  • Chernecky: Laboratory Tests & Diagnostic Procedures

Procedure Resources

30+ Procedure videos with step-by-step text and images, developed in partnership with the University of Washington, overseen and edited by globally distinguished cardiologist Dr. Catherine Otto, and available in the following categories:

• Cardiac catheterization

• Echocardiography and treadmill lab

• Electrophysiology

• Nuclear cardiology

Clinical Overviews

Easy-to-scan, clinically focused medical topic synopses paired with links to in-depth, full-text references and related drug information.

Featured Titles
  1. Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2025
    Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2025
  2. Conn's Current Therapy 2024
    Conn's Current Therapy 2024

Looking for in-depth specialty content?

Explore our advanced specialty packages with expert content from the authors you trust. 

Select your professional specialty and learn about our offerings.

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Essentials Package

Experience all ClinicalKey has to offer with Core Resources including full-text books, clinical overviews & practice guidelines authored by medical experts.

Specialty Package

In addition to all Core Resources, get in-depth specialty content and tools to improve your clinical practice and improve patient outcomes. ​

Extended Specialty Package

ClinicalKey offers 6 Extended Packages with all Core Resources, more journals, clinics & the books needed to master your sub-specialization within your chosen field.

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Yearly Subscription

$299

$500 - $750

$1040 - $1250

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