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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)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #242095 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 303 pages