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Top tipsTop tips: community-acquired pneumonia
Dr Sinan Eccles offers top tips for the assessment and management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia in primary care
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News
PHE seeks views on draft guidance for common infections
Public Health England has published a draft of Management of infection guidance for primary care for consultation and local adaptation for public consultation.
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Implementing guidelines
Pneumonia guideline provides advice on antibiotic choice
Professor Mark Woodhead (pictured) and Dr Celia Pincus discuss NICE CG191 on pneumonia and the importance of accurate diagnosis, severity assessment, and appropriate antibiotic treatment
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Implementing guidelines
BTS revises guidelines on community acquired pneumonia
Updated BTS guidelines on community acquired pneumonia will simplify the assessment of disease severity in primary care, as Dr Peter Saul explains
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Implementing guidelines
BTS guideline will help GPs identify CAP in childhood
Evidence-based guidance from the BTS steers GPs through the maze of lower respiratory tract infections in children, as Dr Peter Saul explains
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Implementing guidelines
Managing childhood CAP: a commonsense approach
The new BTS guidelines on CAP in childhood will support GPs' decisions on management, says Dr Matthew Lockyer
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Implementing guidelines
BTS updates guidelines on community acquired pneumonia
NICE has published Referral Advice – a guide to approriate referral from general to specialist services, which deals with 11 common complaints. Last month we covered the guidance on acute low back pain; in this issue we reproduce the advice on atopic eczema in children. The referral advice is set
