Rheumatology is an ever-changing specialty in which the amount of available information is growing daily and spread across a myriad of books, journals and websites. The Oxford Desk Reference: Rheumatology brings this information together in an easy-to-use format. This essential resource combines up-to-date, relevant, evidence-based information with the latest guidelines and the experience of senior consultants.
The book is designed such that each subject forms a self-contained topic in its own right, laid out across two or four pages to facilitate the key aim of rapid and easy access to information. This makes the information included simple to find, read and absorb, so that the book can be consulted in the clinic or ward setting for information on the optimum management of a particular condition.
Written by internationally renowned rheumatology consultants, with expert contributors for each section, this book is must-have resource for all rheumatologists and an excellent reference for all doctors.
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.
If you are managing rheumatology problems, this is an extremely useful book to have on your shelf; if you are presented with a clinical conundrum and require more detail, this is the ideal book to refer to because both common and rare conditions are comprehensively covered. This book is strongly recommended
