Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines

NHS Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine National Institute for Clinical Excellence (UK) Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination TRIP Database UK Cochrane Centre Virtual library... 

NICE, Depression Management of Depression in Primary and Secondary Care. Clinical Practice Guideline No. 23 , National Institute for Clinical Excellence www.nice.org.uk/page.aspxio = 235213 Nitzan, Uriel and Pesach Lichtenberg, Questionnaire Survey on Use of Placebo , British Medical Journal 329 (2004) 944-46 Park, Lee C. and Lino Covi, Nonblind Placebo Trial , Archives of General Psychiatry 12, no. 4 (1965) 336-45... 

National Institute for Clinical Excellence. 2004, Depression Management of Depression in Primary and Secondary Care. Clinical Practice Guideline Number 23, National Institute for Clinical Excellence, London. 

Preventing childhood obesity Health in the balance. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, September 2004 available at www.iom.edu/report.asp id=22596 Snow V, Barry P, Fitterman N, et al. Pharmacolgic and surgical management of obesity in primary care a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med 2005 142 525-531. 

Depression Guideline Panel (1993) Depression in Primary Care Vol I. Treatment of Major Depression. Clinical Practice Guidelines. Rockville, MD U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. 

The distribution of clinical practice guidelines in Northeast Scotland had no impact on whether appropriate action was taken for high serum lithium concentrations (80% before the guidelines, 82% after). There was no significant difference in proper attention to high concentrations between those in primary care alone (77%) and those in shared care (85%) (365). 

British Cardiac Society, British Hypertension Society, Diabetes UK, HEART UK, Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and The Stroke Association (2005) JBS 2 Joint British Societies guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease in clinical practice. Heart 91 vl-v52. 

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