Welcome to NHS Evidence - skin disorders
NHS Evidence - skin disorders (formerly the NLH Skin Disorders Specialist Library) is being developed as a "one-stop" resource bringing together high quality, evidence-based information on all of aspects of skin disorders, including their treatment and management and the impact they have on patients. NHS Evidence - skin disorders
is funded by the NHS to meet the information needs of health care staff such as dermatologists, dermatology nurses, GPs, practice nurses, community nurses and NHS managers.
Patients, carers and the general public are welcome to use this site, but may wish to visit NHS Choices and NHS Direct Online first. We regret that we are unable to respond to personal medical queries. For such matters we would advise you to contact NHS Direct or your usual doctor.
To find out more about what we do, you can also view our inclusion and quality criteria. If you are a first time user, do take a look at our Help page.
Important note: As of 19th November 2009, the results display on all NHS Evidence specialist collections will default to inverse order of publication date, i.e. most recent first. You can still display by alphabetical order of title using the "Search results options" at the right of each results page.
Annual Evidence Update on Psoriasis
NEW! Monday 2nd November is the date of publication of the 2009 Annual Evidence Update on Psoriasis.
This is our third Annual Evidence Update on Psoriasis. It includes the results of our search for new guidance and systematic reviews published since the last Annual Evidence Update in November 2008, and an overview of "what's new" by Dr Richard Warren and colleagues of Manchester University.
Link to Annual Evidence Update pages here
Unanswered clinical questions on skin disease treatments
NHS Evidence - skin disorders is collaborating with the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (UKDCTN) to collect unanswered clinical questions on skin disease treatments. These will be assessed for inclusion as uncertainties in UK DUETs, the UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments, and then used to help prioritise future research.
If you have a contribution to make, do please contact us via our DUETS submission form.
