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November 17, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on COPD - 16 November 2009
Annual Evidence Update on COPD (NHS Evidence - respiratory)
www.library.nhs.uk/respiratory
Coinciding with World COPD day on 18 November, the evidence update highlights the new evidence published within the last 12 months. An invited commentary discusses any new developments in COPD.
It is anticipated the Annual Evidence Update pages will be further updated in early 2010 when the National Strategy for COPD is published, along with further invited commentaries.
Background to the NHS Evidence Specialist Collections and Annual Evidence Updates
The specialist collections 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 specialist collection 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 17, 2009 9:31 PM