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Evidence Based Gastroenterology and Hepatology is a groundbreaking new text using an evidence based approach. Traditional textbooks in this field have emphasized the basic sciences of pathology, biochemistry and physiology. Evidence Based Gastroenterology and Hepatology covers all the major diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, but also utilizes clinical epidemiology to present the strongest and most current evidence for interventions.

Edited and written by leading gastroentrologists from around the world, each chapter summarizes the evidence for important interventions in a manner that allows the reader to make better informed decisions about which treatments to offer to their patients.

Edited by

John W D McDonald
Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology Service, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

Andrew K Burroughs
Consultant Physician / Hepatologist, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

Brian G Feagan
Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology Service, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

Announcement
The list of authors’ names for chapters 6, 13, 21, 23 and 32 in the print and CDRom version of the book mistakenly omit the full list of authors.

Chapter 6: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced gastroduodenal toxicity was written by Alaa Rostom, Catherine Dubé, Emilie Jolicoeur, Michel Boucher, Peter Tugwell, George Wells, Andreas Maetzel.

Chapter 13: Microscopic and collagenous colitis was written by Johan Bohr, Robert Löfberg, Curt Tysk

Chapter 21: Acute pancreatitis was written by David N Moskovitz, Jonathon Springer, Hillary Steinhart

Chapter 23 Hepatitis C was written by Patrick Marcellin, Tarik Asselah, Nathalie Boyer

Chapter 32: Ascites, hepatorenal syndrome and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis was written by Pere Ginès, Mónica Guevara, Vicente Arroyo, Juan Rodés