On the last Friday of January, NHS Evidence - infections presented at Topics in Infection XXXVI on the history of evidence-based healthcare and provided a brief glimpse into the services that are available to clinicians to help them practice it. Needless to say, NICE and the Cochrane Collaboration featured strongly but the talk instigated a couple of interesting questions. Given that 11% of systematic reviews need some sort of updating after only 2 years (and 7% needed updating before they go to print!) not to mention a well-documented publication bias, it is clear that whilst the nation's clinical contingent are getting increasingly evidence-savvy, they are also identifying the need for better evidence to be made more available. Until 'The Truth' is available, the ISC promises to deliver the best available evidence to you, for free. Can't get fairer than that can you?
2010 Annual Evidence Update: On the move against TB
NHS Evidence - infections will launch its 2010 Annual Evidence Update: On the move against TB on the 22nd of March. The update has been timed to coincide with World TB Day on the 24th of March. This update will include the key guidance, systematic reviews and reports on tuberculosis that have been published in the last 12 months, along with expert commentaries and useful websites.
In This Month's Newsletter:
This month's new additions
Gastrointestinal Infections
Healthcare Associated Infections
Hepatitis
HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Respiratory Infections
Travel Associated Infections
Tuberculosis
Vaccine Preventable Infections
Upcoming Events
Recent News
This Month's New Additions
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Antibiotic therapy for Shigella dysentery.
Source: Cochrane
Development of a travelers' diarrhea vaccine for the military: how much is an ounce of prevention really worth?.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Healthcare Asociated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: code of practice for the NHS on the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and related guidance.
Source: Department of Health
Intrapartum antibiotics for Group B streptococcal colonisation.
Source: Cochrane
Antiviral therapy for recurrent liver graft infection with hepatitis C virus.
Source: Cochrane
Ribavirin plus interferon versus interferon for chronic hepatitis C.
Source: Cochrane
Management of chronic hepatitis B.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV infected persons.
Source: Cochrane
Efficacy of antiretroviral therapy in Africa: effect on immunological and virological outcome measures: a meta-analysis.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Cognitive-behavioral stress management interventions for persons living with HIV: a review and critique of the literature.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Echinacea for prevention or treatment of the common cold.
Source: CRD Health Technology Assessment Database
Adjuvant antiviral therapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.
Source: Cochrane
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.
Source: Cochrane
A review of the efficacy of human Q fever vaccine registered in Australia.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Dengue : guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control.
Source: WHO
Diagnostic accuracy of in-house PCR for pulmonary tuberculosis in smear-positive patients: meta-analysis and metaregression.
Source: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Tuberculosis in the UK: Annual report on tuberculosis surveillance in the UK 2009.
Source: Health Protection Agency
Mumps.
Source: Clinical Knowledge Summaries
Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough.
Source: Cochrane
Immunisation against infectious disease - 'The Green Book'.
Source: Department of Health
NHS Evidence - infections, the infections specialist collection, is based at the Centre for Infections, part of the Health Protection Agency in Colindale, London.
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