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November 17, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Oral Cancer - 16 November 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Oral Cancer (NHS Evidence - oral health)
www.library.nhs.uk/oralhealth
15-21 November 2009 is Mouth Cancer Awareness Week and NHS Evidence - oral health presents an update bringing together recent evidence on oral cancer. This is the third Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on the topic. It presents new guidance and systematic reviews that have been published since November 2008. Accompanying this update is a commentary from David Conway, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Glasgow University Dental School and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health at NHS National Services Scotland (NSS).
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.
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