Books in the Oxford General Practice Series series

Provides guidance on completing and publishing a research project. The book follows the research process, from the formulation of a researchable question, deciding on the design, choosing a sample, and devising measurement instruments, to data analysis and final write up of a project.

This guide to caring for children's health in the primary care setting has been revised and updated. It includes guidance on the implications of the Children's Act and child protection, Health for All Children, screening in pregnancy, asthma management, and other recent changes in practice and in the law.

Peer review is especially effective in inducing change and improvement in clinical practice. Demonstrating its revelance in the UK and Europe, this text should add to the current debate on progress in continuing medical education.

This new book, which has its origins in Dr Marsh's successful earlier book, Modern Obstetrics in General Practice, covers all aspects of maternity care in the community.

This concise yet comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of medical audit in the primary health care setting includes contributions from a range of practitioners who have experience of audit in action, and an appreciation of the potential pitfalls involved.

A large proportion of the patients seen by their general practitioner are suffering from infections. All the common and serious infection encountered in European general practice are covered fully in this comprehensive book. The approach taken throughout is to emphasize the role of teamwork and prevention in contemporary primary care, through patient education and immunization.

This book helps members of the primary health care team to fulfil their obligation to identify people with cardiovascular risk factors among their patients and set up clinics to help reduce that risk. After chapters on how to recognize the risk factors they are given practical methods of risk reduction and guidelines for implementation in practice.

This book is for all those who teach general practice to medical students, both those based in academic departments and `service' general practitioners. It aims to combine the theoretical basis for teaching with practical material, and explores the extent to which general practice can and should take on teaching traditionally carried out in hospital (e.g. basic clinical skills training).

Written for those involved in teaching GPs, this text describes the history of vocational training, examines the educational requirements of adult learners, then discusses curriculum design, assessment, teaching methods, trainer-trainee relationships, and evaluation.

This book brings together research on specifically male health problems, and adds guidelines for all members of the primary health care team. Clear management and referral protocols are provided, along with case histories, bulleted lists, and illustrations.

Primary Care for Older People is a contemporary reference work on health problems in later life written by primary care professionals for primary care professionals. It is aimed at all those who are trying to combine care of individuals with an understanding of the needs of the whole community.

All aspects of drug use in primary care are covered including how drugs are developed, licensed, and marketed; how doctors choose drugs; what is `rational prescribing'; health economics; over-the-counter drugs; and homeopathy. These are set in the context of changing healthcare systems. Primary care prescribers need this book to understand the new prescribing climate and how to adapt to it.