RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Best practice in primary care pathology: review 12
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 330
OP 336
DO 10.1136/jcp.2009.073510
VO 63
IS 4
A1 W S A Smellie
A1 C A M McNulty
A1 P O Collinson
A1 N Shaw
A1 R Bowley
YR 2010
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/63/4/330.abstract
AB This twelfth best practice review examines four series of common primary care questions in laboratory medicine: (i) antiepileptic drug monitoring; (ii) infectious diarrhoea; (iii) methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; and (iv) brain natriuretic peptide. The review is presented in question–answer format, referenced for each question series. The recommendations represent a précis of guidance found using a standardised literature search of national and international guidance notes, consensus statements, health policy documents and evidence-based medicine reviews, supplemented by MEDLINE EMBASE searches to identify relevant primary research documents. They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information.