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Volume 12 Issue 11 - November 2009

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - November 2009 cover
  Editorial
  Do your patients with diabetes have depression?
  News
  Guideline on management of depression in adults is updated
  SIGN publishes attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders guideline
  New Guideline
  NICE guideline aims to improve recognition of child maltreatment
  Dr Christine Habgood explains how NICE guidance directs professionals to obtain further information and take appropriate steps if child maltreatment is a possibility
  Guideline Revisited
  Most patients with OA will need multiple treatment modalities
  Dr Claire Wenham and Professor Philip Conaghan discuss why all individuals with osteoarthritis should be offered a combination of therapies
  Updated Guideline
  Chlamydia testing should be targeted at high-risk groups
  Dr Gordon Scott outlines the updated SIGN recommendations on the management of Chlamydia trachomatis, and methods of reducing rates of infection
  GMS Contract
  New split-level targets for glucose control will promote better care
  Dr Jonathan Graffy explains the rationale for the revised quality and outcomes framework regarding three targets for glycaemic control in patients with diabetes
  Out of Hours
  Doctors and pharmacists need to work in partnership
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol