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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 330-336Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2009.073510
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- Association of Clinical Biochemists
- Association of Clinical Pathologists
- Association of Medical Microbiologists
- British Society for Haematology
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Pathologists
- Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle (SCHIN)
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This twelfth best practice review examines four series of common primary care questions in laboratory medicine: (i) antiepileptic drug monitoring; (ii) infectious diarrhoea; (iii) methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; and (iv) brain natriuretic peptide. The review is presented in questioneanswer format, referenced for each question series. The recommendations represent a precis of guidance found using a standardised literature search of national and international guidance notes, consensus statements, health policy documents and evidence-based medicine reviews, supplemented by MEDLINE EMBASE searches to identify relevant primary research documents. They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information.
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