Rockets

We have to confess that ROCKET is a contrived acronym that stands for:
Recommendations Online: Clinical Knowledge Evidence Translation.

Latest rockets

Rocket 112 Management of attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people (507K)
Rocket 111 Management of hip fracture in older people (480K)
Rocket 110 Early management of adults with a head injury (2.14M)
Rocket 110 Early management of children with a head injury (1.45M)
Rocket 109 Management of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection (347K)

CANCER ROCKETS

Rocket 106 Control of pain in adults with cancer (628K)
Rocket 99 Management of cervical cancer (503K)
Rocket 90 Diagnosis and management of head and neck cancer (798K)
Rocket 87 Management of oesophageal and gastric cancer (619K)
Rocket 84 Management of breast cancer in women (509K)

WHAT IS A SIGN ROCKET?

SIGN ROCKETs are online summaries of our guidelines that allow you to manoeuvre, click by click, quickly around the clinical content to help you find the specific piece of information that you are looking for. ROCKETS are based on our quick reference guides, but may contain additional supporting material from the full guideline.

ROCKET OR QRG?

If you want a summary of the guideline to print, read and file for future reference, then you should navigate to the Quick Reference Guide for the guideline. If you would like to browse through a summary of the guideline online, to get a quick overview of content or look for a particular recommendation, then you should take a look at the ROCKET for the guideline.

FINDING YOUR ROCKET

ROCKETS can be accessed by clicking on the links at the top of this page or you can find the ROCKET associated with each guideline by going to the list of published guidelines.

NAVIGATING YOUR ROCKET

The title of each ROCKET is a link to the full guideline. The ROCKET begins with a list of links to all the areas covered. Click on any of these to go directly to the subject you are interested in. Within the text there may be links to related information – these are highlighted in blue. At regular intervals throughout the text there are links to take you back to the list of contents.

Feedback

ROCKETS are new on the SIGN website and we would appreciate any feedback on how useful they are, or how we might improve them. If you have the time please email us at sign@sign.ac.uk