Main description:

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.

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