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November 19, 2008
Lung Cancer Annual Evidence Update - November 2008
Lung cancer (Cancer Specialist Library)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/cancer
The Cancer Specialist Library launched its Lung Cancer Annual Evidence Update on 17h November 2008. The update has been divided into sections which consider:
* Causes, risks and prevention
* Screening
* Assessment and diagnosis
* Service delivery and standards
* Treatment and disease management - Biological therapy
* Treatment and disease management - Chemotherapy
* Treatment and disease management - Radiotherapy
* Treatment and disease management - Surgery
* Treatment and disease management - Symptomatic therapy
* Other therapies
* Palliative care
* Psychosocial, quality of life and follow-up
The resources included in the update are mostly systematic reviews and some guidance published in the preceding year (2007-2008). Where possible we provide links to the full text and where these are not available to the abstract. The Cancer Specialist Library conducts on-going literature searches and the resources presented in the Annual Evidence Update are the most recently published material that has been indexed in the international databases we search. We welcome feedback about the resources included in this update - do contact us if you would like to comment.
The National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Libraries have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.
Posted by S.Austin at November 19, 2008 11:40 PM