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> From: Olive Goddard <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri Jan 31, 2003 09:16:38 Europe/London
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: An invitation to contributors
> Reply-To: Olive Goddard <[log in to unmask]>
>
> An invitation to contributors
>
> Contributors are needed for a book to be called 'Differential
> Diagnosis in Primary Care'. It will be a companion volume to the
> best-selling book on clinical management, Khot and Polmear's
> 'Practical General Practice' and will be edited by Andrew Polmear.
>
> It will differ from all other books of diagnosis in primary care by
> being evidence-based. Each section will start with a symptom,
> accompanied by the probabilities of the different possible diagnoses.
> It will then show how those probabilities alter as the general
> practitioner (GP) explores the history, examination and test results.
> Results will be expressed in any way possible (pre-test and post-test
> probabilities, positive and negative predictive values, sensitivities,
> specificities and likelihood ratios) according to what evidence is
> available. Where there is insufficient evidence to express
> probabilities statistically the section will fall back on advice based
> on clinical experience.
>
> Contributors need not be GPs but they need to bear in mind that it is
> the prevalence of the symptom in primary care that is the starting
> point for each section. Sometimes contributors will find that much of
> the evidence has already been brought together, as in the JAMA series
> on the Rational Clinical Examination. More often the contributor will
> be assembling the evidence from primary research articles. The wording
> of the final text will be written by the editor, in order to ensure a
> uniform approach, but as far as the editor is concerned, the
> contributor is the author of the section.
>
> Financial reward will be minimal: a small amount to cover expenses and
> a free copy of the book plus a discount on other Elsevier titles. The
> real reward will be the excitement of being part of a new and
> important venture.
>
> Potential contributors are invited to contact [log in to unmask]
> by February 28th for a list of proposed topics and more details of the
> structure of the book.
>
> Andrew Polmear MA MSc FRCP FRCGP
> Senior Research Fellow
> Academic Unit of Primary Care
> The Trafford Centre for Graduate Medical Education and Research
> The University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9RY
> United Kingdom
>
> Olive Goddard
> Centre and Editorial Manager
> Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
> Room 4
> Oxford University Department of Psychiatry
> Warneford Hospital, Headington
> Oxford, OX3 7JX
> .....................................................................
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 226485 email:
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