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November 25, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Supportive and Palliative Care in Chronic Lung Disease - 23 November 2009
Annual Evidence Update on Supportive and Palliative Care in Chronic Lung Disease (NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care)
www.library.nhs.uk/palliative
The Update collects together the best new knowledge covering two key symptoms which affect most patients - cough and dyspnoea (breathlessness). The review of the literature encompasses recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of these symptoms as well as their management using drugs, physical, nursing and other non-pharmacological methods.
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 25, 2009 9:46 PM