Hot Topics in General Practice - Couverture souple

Kilburn, Julian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904842577 ISBN 13 : 9781904842576

Editeur : Scion Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Hot Topics in General Practice remains one of the best-selling guides to the articles currently influencing general practice.

This latest edition covers all the key articles right through to Spring 2008 - from, for example, the BMJ, the Lancet, British Journal of General Practice, Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, and Evidence-Based Medicine.

Each topic not only provides details of the latest publications, but all summarises what is already known, lists the key trials, and the current guidelines and recommendations. Now in its 9th edition, it continues to provide readers, whether nMRCGP candidates or qualified GPs, with the earliest possible means of keeping up-to-date.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hot Topics in General Practice is one of the best-selling MRCGP revision guides. The book is now comprehensively updated on an annual basis and published even more rapidly to ensure it provides the very latest information for readers: this new edition is current to Spring 2008 and is written specifically for the 2008 nMRCGP exams. This is the most up-to-date Hot Topics book available. The book continues to summarise the key publications from the most influential and authoritative medical journals including: British Medical Journal, British Journal of General Practice, The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Evidence Based Medicine. The book follows a consistent structure to aid understanding each topic: starts with a review of what is already known lists the current guidelines and key trials summarises the key articles published in the last 2-3 years This latest edition of Hot Topics in General Practice provides readers, whether nMRCGP candidates or qualified GPs, with the easiest possible means of keeping up-to-date with the articles that are influencing general practice. Contents: PRACTICE ISSUES The consultation Concordance and prescribing Pharmacists Accessing care Nurse practitioners Information technology Future of general practice Doctors in practice The pharmaceutical industry Clinical governance Health inequalities Ethics CLINICAL ISSUES LIFESTYLE Alcohol Diet Drug misuse Vitamins Exercise Smoking Obesity and the metabolic syndrome CARDIOVASCULAR Antithrombotics Hypertension Lipids Coronary heart disease Heart failure Stroke Diabetes RESPIRATORY Asthma Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Respiratory infection and antibiotics Influenza MUSCULOSKELETAL Arthritis and NSAIDs Back pain OSTEOPOROSIS OLDER PEOPLE MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS DEPRESSION DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SCREENING Screening concepts Colorectal cancer Prostate cancer Aortic aneurysm Breast cancer Cervical cancer Chlamydia SEXUAL HEALTH ALLERGIES COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES DYSPEPSIA AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI UROLOGY IMMUNISATION. NOTE - SCION BOOKS FOR THE NMRCGP INCLUDE: CSA SCENARIOS FOR THE NEW MRCGP(9781904842644); CONSULTATION SKILLS FOR THE NMRCGP (9781904842606); APPLIED KNOWLEDGE TEST FOR THE NMRCGP (9781904842545); CASES AND CONCEPTS FOR THE NMRCGP (9781904842538); HOT TOPICS IN GENERAL PRACTICE 9TH EDTION (9781904842576) AND CSA SUMMARY CARDS (9780955366154)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scion Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904842577
• ISBN 13: 9781904842576
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible