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Evidence Updates from NHS Evidence


NHS Evidence recently published the following Evidence Updates:
  • Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE cancer services guidance ‘Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers’ (2004).
  • Familial breast cancer (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 41 ‘The classification and care of women at risk of familial breast cancer in primary, secondary and tertiary care’ (2006).
  • Sedation in children and young people (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 112 ‘Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children and young people’ (2010).
  • Constipation in children and young people (June 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 99 ‘Diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation in primary and secondary care’ (2010).

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