Annual Evidence Update on Tuberculosis (Infections Specialist Library)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/infections
The Infections Specialist Library in collaboration with the National Knowledge Service - TB launched its Annual Evidence Update on Tuberculosis on 23 March 2009, to coincide with World TB Day on 24 March 2009.
This Annual Evidence Update's message is derived from the Stop TB Partnership's focus for this year, which is "Simply, Stopping TB". Subtopics include:
1. Vaccines to prevent TB
2. Treatment Completion
3. Line probe assays
4. HIV testing in TB clinics
Experts in the field provide commentaries on these subtopics, and links to other useful websites are also provided.
We welcome feedback about the resources included in this update - please contact us if you would like to comment.
The National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Libraries have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.