Here at last is a realistic and practical book that shows how evidence-based practice can be successfully applied in a primary care setting.

The first section provides an introduction to the principles of evidence-based health care as they apply to primary care, and many other books on this subject stop right there. However, Section 3 practises what this first section preaches, by applying these tools to 15 common clinical problems in primary care, such as sore throat, asthma, urinary tract infections, low back pain and heart failure.

In between, Section 2 focuses on...