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Volume 10 Issue 11 - November 2007
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |
| Guidelines in Practice Cardiovascular Disease Award 2007 | |
| Audit on measuring CVD risk wins Guidelines in Practice Award | |
| News | |
| New Government survey measures GP support for PBC | |
| NICE issues guideline on use of TNF-α inhibitors in RA | |
| Personal View | |
| NICE publishes guidance on use of rituximab for RA | |
| Dr Louise Warburton discusses NICE approval of rituximab for the treatment of patients with severe active rheumatoid arthritis | |
| GMS Contract: QOF2 | |
| Patients with COPD are benefiting from the QOF clinical indicators | |
| Dr Steve Holmes discusses the clinical indicators for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and how they are augmenting the already high level of care provided by GPs | |
| New Guideline | |
| BSACI advises GPs on tackling chronic urticaria and angio-oedema | |
| The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology guideline alleviates the diagnostic and therapeutic challenge of urticaria, say Dr Imran Rafi and Dr Shuaib Nasser | |
| Guideline Revisited | |
| Evidence-based advice helps GPs to identify and treat dyspepsia | |
| Dr James Dalrymple revisits the guideline from NICE on the management of dyspepsia in primary care, and assesses its impact on initial diagnosis, treatment, and prescribing costs | |
| Hot Topic | |
| Plan your practice’s procedures for tackling an influenza pandemic | |
| Dr Gerard Panting outlines the potential course and spread of a national and global epidemic, its impact on healthcare resources, and what steps can be taken to prepare for it | |
| QOF2 Indicators | |
| QOF2 clinical indicators: summary tables | |
| Focus on CME | |
| Guidelines in Practice: CME questions: 74 | |
| Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan | |
| Conferences & Meetings | |
| Diary of events | |
| Please let us know of your forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Evidence-based medicine is stifling clinical freedom | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol |
Guidelines in Practice, November 2007, Volume 10 (11)
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