TY - JOUR T1 - Resource reviews JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 157 LP - 158 DO - 10.1136/ebm.13.5.157 VL - 13 IS - 5 A2 - , Y1 - 2008/10/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/13/5/157.abstract N2 - Fred Tudiver, MDJames H Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USAEvidence-based medical monitoring: from principles to practice is available at http://eu.wiley.com for £49.99.I was drawn to this book right from the title. Imagine: an evidence-based text on monitoring (mostly) chronic disease for clinicians. I’ve imagined such a resource for many of my primary care practice years. Well, does this book deliver? Yes—perhaps depending on what you do. It is quite a scholarly book and would certainly appeal to academics and researchers in this field. But there’s information for clinicians as well, especially for those clinicians who are tired of second-guessing the management of their patients’ common chronic diseases because they often lack a proper evidence-based roadmap.The authors’ introductory chapter’s definition of medical monitoring puts the readers on the same page: “…repeated testing aimed at guiding and adjusting the management of a chronic or recurrent condition.” They set out 8 general principles of medical monitoring that nicely run through the entire book … ER -