Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology

In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicans is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice. While it is clearly helpful to have reearch-based guidelines and protocols to draw upon it is not always easy to process this information particularly at the time when it is needed most such as on a ward round or in a busy outpatient clinic.
This textbook is designed to overcome this problem. The editors have produced a comprehensive summary of rheumatology which focuses on aspects that are important to the clinican, and in it have brought together the key recommendations found in current evidence-based guidelines and presented them in a uniform and accesible format. It has been designed and written so that locating information is both quick and simple, and the layout of the chapters allows the reader to identify and assimilate information rapidly.