To guide you in identifying and treating common disorders, Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD) and Wolters Kluwer Health have published this fifth edition of Standard Treatment Guidelines. This clinically oriented text covers around 330 priority diseases in 11 specialties, focusing on clinical manifestations, patient management and patient education. In this edition, many more priority diseases have been added, besides substantive revision reflecting therapeutic advances. Dermatology section has colour photographs. A large number of experts have contributed in this book to help solve the problems you encounter in everyday practice. The book is user friendly and provides a stepwise up-to-date treatment approach for busy practitioners as well as interns and residents, leaving more time to establish accurate diagnosis and communication with the patient. This book offers expert information you can use immediately in your clinical practice. A busy clinician can thus make an informed, effective patient management decision for different levels of health care, from primary health care to detailed protocols for tertiary care health centres