Gibson P. Evidence-based respiratory medicine. Oxford: Blackwell BMJ, 2005.
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Oxford, UK
Key Words: evidence-based medicine
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
The stated aim of Evidence-based respiratory medicine is to provide clinicians with a desktop reference that summarises published information and provides advice in specific situations to advance patient care. Its 550 pages are divided into 6 chapters, each with its own editor.
The first chapter discusses practising evidence-based diagnosis and therapeutics. The next 5 chapters cover specific diseases, with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pulmonary infection providing the bulk of the book. The final 2 chapters cover respiratory failure, sleep disordered breathing, interstitial lung disease, pleural disease, pulmonary hypertension, and thromboembolic disease.
The contents clearly reflect the worldwide burden of airways disease. However, like all evidence-based texts, it is naturally weighted to those areas with the most studies and systematic reviews. I was surprised to see an intervention as important as smoking cessation could justify only 5 pages in comparison to the 7 that corticosteroid induced osteoporosis could fill.
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
-
Patients
-
Hypertension
-
Pulmonary hypertension
-
Immunology (including allergy)
-
Sleep disorders (neurology)
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
