Authors: Michael Bigby, Thomas Diepgen, Luigi Naldi, Andrew Herxheimer, Herrn Berthold Rzany
This is a book about using the best evidence to inform treatment
decisions for people with skin disease. It is written by dermatologists for dermatologists, using examples throughout to illustrate key points. The book starts off with a toolbox section, written in a way which will help those relatively new to the principles of
evidence-based dermatology to understand the
key issues, and equip them with the basics of how to tell a good study from a bad one. The majority of the book then deals with an evidence-based summary of the common and important skin diseases in a structured and easy to read format around common patient scenarios. Whilst most of the evidence is based on randomised