NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) - Update December 2008, UK

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Article Date: 05 Dec 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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We are pleased to announce that there are eight new or updated CKS topics this month.

- Breast screening - New
- CVD risk assessment and management
- Diabetes Type 2
- Feverish children - management- New
- Lipid modification - CVD prevention
- Migraine
- Neuropathic pain - adjunct drugs - New
- Tennis elbow - New

What else is new?

Get involved

Feedback on draft topics is a key part in the knowledge development process for the Clinical Knowledge Summaries. In addition to feedback from experts, professional organizations and patient groups, we are particularly interested to receive feedback from healthcare professionals who use CKS.

We are happy to acknowledge your involvement in a letter that you may wish to add to your continual professional development or appraisal folder and/or on the website. The below draft topics which are available for feedback can also be viewed from the Getting involved section of the website.

- Benzodiazepine and z drug withdrawal
- Candida - skin
- Chlamydia
- Falls - risk assessment
- Hyperhidrosis
- Osteoporosis - postmenopausal women
- Prostate - benign hyperplasia
- Prostatitis - acute
- Prostatitis - chronic
- Pyelonephritis - acute
- Sinusitis

Drug safety update

Drug Safety Update includes: adverse psychiatric reactions, including depression, for varenicline; new formulation of tigecycline affects compatibility.

NLH Annual Evidence Updates

Annual Evidence Update on HIV/AIDS from the NLH Infections Specialist Library.

Annual Evidence Update on stroke from the NLH Stroke Specialist Library.

Think Carbon Monoxide

The Department of Health is asking healthcare professionals to 'Think Carbon Monoxide' when patients present with general tiredness, flu-like or food-poisoning symptoms.

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