Practical General Practice: Guidelines for Effective Clinical Management 4th Edition

✍ Scribed by Alex Khot, Andrew Polmear

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 530
• Edition: 4th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Clinical guidelines are moving fast and in cardiology alone, major new guidelines hae been issued in the past 18 months for hypertension, angine, myocardial infarction and heart failure. All these have altered the recommendations which GPs now give. Now in its fourth edition, this book continues to be a popular text book for trainee and established GPs.Instant access to over 500 topics Guidelines on immediate management as well as criteria for referral An evidence-based, problem-centred approach Text boxes and tables for easy reference Recommendations that reflect UK and international guidelines Enclosed CD which expands on material in the book with 29 appendices, allowing questionnaires and other material to be printed off. An essential purchase for all GPs in practice and in training. Guidelines and evidence have been updated since the last edition The addition of 27 new contributors has increased the breadth of the book The CD has links so that a check on a reference takes the reader to the Medline abstract, and a click on a web address takes the reader to that website.

✦ Table of Contents

Practical General Practice......Page 0
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
The structure of the book......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Feedback and updating......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 13
List of abbreviations......Page 15
1. General......Page 20
2. Infectious diseases......Page 38
3. Sexually transmitted infections......Page 60
4. Childhood problems......Page 70
5. Cardiovascular problems......Page 108
6. Respiratory problems......Page 134
7. Gastroenterological problems......Page 150
8. Endocrine problems......Page 166
9. Rheumatological problems......Page 180
10. Neurological problems......Page 208
11. Gynaecological problems......Page 228
12. Contraception and sexual problems......Page 246
13. Obstetric problems......Page 272
14. Urinary problems......Page 294
15. Surgical problems......Page 306
16. Psychiatric problems......Page 320
17. Substance abuse......Page 340
18. Ear, nose and throat problems......Page 354
19. Eye problems......Page 374
20. Skin problems......Page 384
21. Allergic problems......Page 402
22. Older people......Page 408
23. Disability......Page 422
24. Haematology......Page 434
25. Pain, palliative care and
bereavement......Page 440
26. Health promotion and screening......Page 460
Appendices......Page 476
Index......Page 516