The primary purpose of this publication is to increase road safety in Australia by assisting health professionals to:

• Assess the fitness to drive of their patients in a consistent and appropriate manner, based on current medical evidence
• Promote the responsible behaviour of their patients having regard to their medical fitness
• Conduct medical examinations for the licensing of drivers as required by State and Territory Driver Licensing Authorities
• Make recommendations regarding conditional licences
• Recognise the extent and limits of their professional and legal obligations with respect to reporting fitness to drive.

It combines the medical standards for commercial and private vehicle drivers and replaces the publications "Assessing Fitness to Drive 2001" and "Medical Examinations for Commercial Vehicle Drivers 1997". Comprehensive guidance is also provided for health professionals conducting examinations and provides a clear outline of the responsibilities and relationships in the licensing process for drivers, health professionals and driver licensing authorities.

This handbook is a general guide to appropriate practice subject to clinician's judgement in each individual case. It is designed to provide information to assist decision making using the best information available from the National Health and Medical Research Council approval.

A comprehensive user-friendly introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research.

Features 'Presenting Problems' (case studies) drawn from studies published in the medical literature.

The most current, authoritative, and comprehensive pharmacology resource for medical, pharmacy, and other health science students.

Widely respected for its clarity, comprehensiveness, and organization, this pharmacology resource presents the essential concepts that students need to know about the science of pharmacology and their application. Focuses on the basic principles of each drug group as well as the clinical choice and use of drugs in patients and the monitoring of their effects.

The Better Health Channel is a free service by the Victorian Government. It provides consumer health and medical information which is constantly expanded and regularly reviewed.

Better Health Channel content partners are reputable health organisations with specialised knowledge in the particular topic area. There are articles under these subject groups

• Conditions and Treatments
• Healthy living
• Relationships and Family
• Support information

The Children's Hospital Westmead Drug Dosage Guidelines.

This work is about the ethical issues that clinicians encounter in caring for patients. In order to practice excellent clinical care, clinicians and those studying to become clinicians must understand ethical issues such as informed consent, truth telling, confidentiality, privacy, the distinction between research and clinical care, and end-of-life care. Clinicians must apply this knowledge in their daily practices.

Recognized for a practice-oriented approach to neurology based on the patient's presenting symptoms or signs.

This uniquely readable and concise book provides a strong foundation in basic neuroscience linking it to current approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic disorders.

This work fosters understanding of the mechanisms of disease (pathogenesis) as a foundation for dealing with a vast amount of clinical information encounter in clinical practice.