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In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >..... well received work on guidelines. > Also does anyone now anything about SIGN SIGN stands for the Scottish InterCollegiate Guidelines Network, and is what it says. Funded by Scottish Office along with a sister endeavour for purchasers called Scottish Health Purchasing Information Centre. SIGN has been going longest and has produced several nattily-presented evidence-based guidelines on things like Obesity, Prevention of Visual Impairment, Management of Acute Asthma, Prophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism, Helicobacter Pylori, etc. Clever bit is having ensured College support up front, hence each guideline development group contains relevant clinicians, even dietitian on the Obesity group. (BTW, controversially, this declared on the basis of the evidence that appetite suppresants have a role, which might not please prescribing advisors!) Each guideline contains a recommended dataset which, if collected, will support local audit of the guideline's efficacy. My interest is helping make this happen. There's also a group trying to agree the core content of the referral letter. SIGN ain't got a web site yet, so contact... Christine Pottinger SIGN Royal College of Physicians 9 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JQ tel 0131 225 7324 fax 0131 220 4393 Cheers Alan Hyslop Computing & IT Strategy Management Executive Scottish Health Service %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%