(Ebook) Oxford Clinical Guidelines: Newly Qualified Doctor by David Fisher; Deborah Gill ISBN 9780198834502, 9780192571434, 0198834500, 0192571435

(Ebook) Oxford Clinical Guidelines: Newly Qualified Doctor by David Fisher; Deborah Gill ISBN 9780198834502, 9780192571434, 0198834500, 0192571435

Evidence-based guidelines have played an increasing role inmedical practice in recent years. Healthcare professionals useguidelines to contend with the overwhelming wealth of availableinformation and to translate scientific advances and newknowledge into safe clinical care.The popularity of clinical guidelines has led to an exponentialrise in guidelines being created since the 1980s and modernhealthcare professionals are expected to be familiar with them. TheGeneral Medical Council’s (GMC) Good Medical Practiceguidance, which records what is expected of every GMC-registereddoctor, states: ‘You must be familiar with guidelines … that affectyour work’. Such a directive is challenging to uphold. First, therange of available guidelines in every speciality is vast andconstantly expanding. Furthermore, individual guidelines can bedense and lengthy, and are therefore impractical to comb throughfor a professional wishing to acquaint themselves quickly withcurrent clinical approaches.This publication seeks to address that challenge. Written byjunior doctors, each chapter summarizes the key clinical evidencebasedguidelines which shape UK practice and presents theinformation in an accessible and concise format. Where relevant,chapters provide brief additional contextual points in order to explain the guideline for those less familiar with the field. Junior doctors, in particular foundation doctors, will find this resourceuseful to rapidly familiarize themselves with the latest clinicalguidelines for the commonest conditions that they encounter inboth primary and secondary care. Students will find this bookuseful as a quick reference guide to better understand the patientjourney. They can also use it as a revision aid, as knowledge ofguidelines is increasingly tested in medical school examinations.