Practical General Practice : Guidelines for Effective Clinical Management

A concise and user-friendly practical reference text for general practitioners, Practical General Practice is a well-established guide to the management of a wide range of clinical topics. Twenty-five new authors have contributed to this edition, bringing with them a new breadth of knowledge and experience. This fourth edition is even more solidly evidence-based, more extensively referenced, and has more systematic searching for guidelines and research evidence.

This invaluable book is designed to be used during the consultation, either in its paper version or on screen via a CD. Its format allows the GP to cut straight to the guidelines that are outlined step by step. At the same time, each section is introduced with a few key facts and backed up by references so that it can be used in GP training, both by Registrars and their tutors, as an introduction to the literature on each topic.

In addition, the authors will be providing regular updates at www.practicalgeneralpractice.co.uk - making sure that the information presented is the most current available!

• 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.

"...this provides the primary care physician
with practical, quality advice (hence the title) on how to manage the
patient in front of them.
The content is very
factual, often in note form and covers a wide range of topics which are
common to general practice.
this book
which is just over 500 pages long, is an excellent and admirable
contribution to quality care in general practice." Dr Harry Brown, Medix-Uk Website