The CPM Resource Center Launches Web-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Point of Care Guidelines(TM) Supports New and Emerging Meaningful use Requirements for Care Coordination and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, April 5, 2010 - The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC)
(www.cpmrc.com/), an Elsevier company and leader in developing
clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, today launched its first
Web-based version of Point of Care Guidelines(TM) (www.cpmrc.com/).
The online edition of its award-winning guidelines supports new and emerging
meaningful use requirements for care coordination and interdisciplinary
collaboration with a model that helps improve practice at the point of care
and thus facilitate sustainable healthcare transformation.

Offering an evidence-based approach to patient care covering
medical, surgical and human response diagnoses, the online guidelines offer
users new and enhanced features including varied search mechanisms; direct,
internal links; relevant external resource site links; evidence leveling and
recommendation grading and customization options to add hospital specific
policies, announcements and branding on the homepage. Nurses and
interdisciplinary professionals will have quick access to more than 200 CPMRC
clinical practice guidelines to ensure that they will have all the
information needed to build their workflow around best practices.

"The point-and-click knowledge that Point of Care Guidelines
provides is necessary for the way many healthcare organizations are
supporting evidence-based decision-making and care planning at the point of
care in today's tech-based world," said Donna Mayo, MSN, RN, CPMRC's Director
of Product Development. "Any information from the Point of Care Guidelines is
accessible from any remote log-in location. Quick, convenient search tools
allow users to find relevant information instantly. This translates into
easily adaptable evidence and a high standard of quality patient care."

The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center embraces both
educational and practice settings. The model's core beliefs are related to
safe, individualized healthcare; healthy work culture; continuous learning;
evidence-based action; partnership; individual accountability; shared
mission, vision and values; and healthy relationships. Information is updated
in real-time and developed by expert interdisciplinary clinicians through the
nearly 300 member CPMRC International Consortium, which maintains a
continuous feedback loop designed to ensure credible, relevant information
and CPMRC's development methodology.

"The Institute of Medicine, regulatory principles and patient
safety initiatives have defined evidence-based decision making and practice
environments as a clear priority," said Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, DPNAP,
CPMRC's Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer.
"Point of Care Guidelines answers that call by decreasing variances in
outcomes, improving patient care, aligning with patient safety initiatives
and quality standards, and enhancing interdisciplinary care coordination."

Clinical guidelines are only as strong as the process through
which they are created. CPMRC's process combines a rigorous, scientifically
based development methodology with a broad-based consensual validation
involving literally thousands of practitioners. This unique methodology
ensures that CPMRC's guidelines are the most advanced, comprehensive and
intensely scrutinized decision-support tools in the world.

For more product information, visit
www.pointofcare-g.com.

About CPMRC

For over 25 years, the CPM Resource Center has been offering
evidence-based, interdisciplinary clinical practice guidelines, care planning
and documentation at the point of care. Based on the CPM Professional
Practice Framework(TM), these EMR compatible and web-based solutions are
developed and maintained by expert interdisciplinary colleagues, and
tested/validated through a Consortium of nearly 300 member hospitals. In
addition, the company offers Practice Transformation services to assist
organizations with clinical practice advancement, team-based care and EMR
implementation and adoption. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier, the
world's leading provider of science and health information. For more
information visit www.cpmrc.com

About Elsevier

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than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell
(www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com),
Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and
Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the
productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite
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which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
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    Tom Reller
    VP - Global Corporate Relations
    +1-212-462-1912
    T.Reller@elsevier.com

Tom Reller, VP - Global Corporate Relations, +1-212-462-1912, T.Reller at elsevier.com