Evidence-Based Endocrinology 4th edition

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health

Language: English

ISBN: 9781975110840

Year: 2011

Edition: 4th

Pages: 477

Author: Pauline M Camacho MD

Product Type: Paperback

Condition: New

Price: ₹ 1495

When we first conceptualized this book in 2004, we asked, "Why is there no evidence-based handbook in endocrinology? Clearly, endocrine disorders lend themselves to evidence-based medicine. The endocrine literature is huge and can be overwhelmingly so to a busy clinician. For some disense states, large con- trolled studies of quantifiable treatment regimens with quantifiable results have been undertaken and published; for other disorders, no such trials are found in the literature, but case studies or small trials of drug therapies or diagnostic measures are available. In the contemporary health care environment, some phy sicians treating endocrine patients may have little specialized training or experi- ence in endocrine disease and only minimal appreciation of the quality of its vast literature. A manual encapsulating the best available evidence-based informa tion in endocrinology was needed. We therefore set out to publish the first concise handbook that contained the latest clinical trials and evidence. We were gratified that the book was very well received in the United States and internationally. and the readers' feedback was most rewarding.

Given the rapidity and extent of new developments in endocrinology, we are now on the fourth edition of this book. In Evidence-Based Endocrinology, fourth edition, all chapters received a fresh look from the authors, and hundreds of new references were added. Diabetes, thyroid, and metabolic bone diseases continue to be the most rapidly growing fields, and the authors present a comprehensive update of new therapies and the latest clinical guidelines for these diseases. We also added a new chapter on the management of transgender patients.

Why should clinicians benefit from this book? At its most basic, it frees them from having to find and digest the huge volume of endocrine literature. The lat est and best publications have been sought out and summarized here. It is our hope that readers find the fourth edition of Evidence-Based Endocrinology to be a worthwhile addition to office libraries, to medical reference areas, to the pockets of their lab coats, or as electronic books in their cell phones.