NHS Evidence

NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases
- all of the evidence you need in one place

NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases, a Specialist Collection of NHS Evidence, aims to provide access to the best available evidence within gastroenterology and liver diseases to NHS healthcare professionals. It is not intended to replace databases like PubMed, which provide access to journal articles. Although targeted at health professionals; patients, carers and the general public will find useful information on the site, and we have produced a patient's guide to help you.

For each of the left-hand subject headings, resources are sorted into these categories:

Guidance & pathways - for clinical and service guidelines
Evidence - for Cochrane Reviews, DARE abstracts and other evidence-based research
References - for specialist websites, organisations, news items and NLH annual evidence updates
Education/CPD - for learning materials and online courseware
Patient Information - for patient orientated leaflets and support groups.

Latest Medical News

British Society of Gastroenterology

Dr Martin Lombard appointed national clinical director for liver disease

Gastroenterology

Long-term probability of and mortality from de novo malignancy after liver transplantation

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Review article: the current management of acute liver failure

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Systematic review: portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Retrospective evaluation of the safety and effect of adalimumab therapy (RESEAT) in pediatric Crohn's disease

Endoscopy

Process quality and incidence of acute complications in a series of more than 230 000 outpatient colonoscopies

New England Journal of Medicine

Preoperative biliary stents in pancreatic cancer — proceed with caution

New England Journal of Medicine

Preoperative biliary drainage for cancer of the head of the pancreas

Link to news archive

Professional and Patient Organisations

We have put together a list of professional and patient organisations associated with gastroenterological and hepatological topics.

Professional associations and organisations

Patient support groups and organisations

If you would like your organisation added to this list, please contact us.

Nurse Section

This month, NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases is launching a subsection of the site aimed specifically at nurses. The page collects together useful information for nurses working in gastroenterology, including:

Guest editorials written by nurses in the field. The first, an introduction to the Specialist Collection and the nurse section written by Lynda Greenslade and Isobel Mason, is available now.
A list of key journal articles in gastrointestinal nursing.
A feed of recently published articles from key journals.
Information on specialist training courses available in the UK.
A calendar of events of interest to gastrointestinal nurses.

We hope that you find it useful. If you have any feedback, please contact us.

Annual Evidence Updates

Annual evidence updates highlight the best evidence published in the last year in the diagnosis, treatment and management of specific conditions. Please see the AEUs page for more information.

Hepatitis B/C
AEU 2009

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
AEU 2009

Alcoholic Liver Disease
AEU 2009

UK DUETs

DUETs The UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (UK DUETs) has been established to publish uncertainties that cannot currently be answered, by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence. NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases is helping to build UK DUETs by identifying uncertainties from the literature in our topic. The current list of uncertainties identified in gastroenterology and liver disease can be found here.

Further information.