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Symptom to diagnosis : an evidence-based guide / Scott D.C. Stern, Adam S. Cifu, Diane Altkorn

By: Contributor(s): Series: A Lange medical bookPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Education Medical, 2015Edition: Third editionDescription: xi, 575 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780071803441
  • 0071803440
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.07/5 23
LOC classification:
  • RC 71 .St476 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
The diagnostic process -- Screening and health maintenance -- Abdominal pain -- Acid-base abnormalities -- AIDS/HIV infection -- Anemia -- Back pain -- Bleeding disorders -- Chest pain -- Cough, fever, and respiratory infections -- Delirium and dementia -- Diabetes -- Diarrhea, Acute -- Dizziness -- Dyspnea -- Dysuria -- Edema -- Fatigue -- GI bleeding -- Headache -- Hymaturia -- Hypercalcemia -- Hypertension -- Hyponatremia and hypernatremia -- Hypotension -- Jaundice and abnormal liver enzymes -- Joint pain -- Kidney injury, acute -- Rash -- Sore throat -- Syncope -- Weight loss, unintentional -- Wheezing and stridor
Summary: This edition teaches you an evidence-based, step-by-step process for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients based on their clinical complaints. By applying this process you will be able to recognize specific diseases and prescribe the most effective therapy. Each chapter addresses a common patient complaint and begins with a case & guidance on how to organize the differential diagnosis. As the case progresses, clinical reasoning is explained in detail to either confirm or refute a diagnosis. Filled with algorithms, summary tables, and questions that direct evaluation, this new edition is enhanced by the edition of 5 new chapters, all incorporating the latest research resulting in new & refined approaches to common symptoms encountered in clinical medicine
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Books Overnight Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Circulation Section RC 71 .St476 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0008232

Includes bibliographical references and index

The diagnostic process -- Screening and health maintenance -- Abdominal pain -- Acid-base abnormalities -- AIDS/HIV infection -- Anemia -- Back pain -- Bleeding disorders -- Chest pain -- Cough, fever, and respiratory infections -- Delirium and dementia -- Diabetes -- Diarrhea, Acute -- Dizziness -- Dyspnea -- Dysuria -- Edema -- Fatigue -- GI bleeding -- Headache -- Hymaturia -- Hypercalcemia -- Hypertension -- Hyponatremia and hypernatremia -- Hypotension -- Jaundice and abnormal liver enzymes -- Joint pain -- Kidney injury, acute -- Rash -- Sore throat -- Syncope -- Weight loss, unintentional -- Wheezing and stridor

This edition teaches you an evidence-based, step-by-step process for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients based on their clinical complaints. By applying this process you will be able to recognize specific diseases and prescribe the most effective therapy. Each chapter addresses a common patient complaint and begins with a case & guidance on how to organize the differential diagnosis. As the case progresses, clinical reasoning is explained in detail to either confirm or refute a diagnosis. Filled with algorithms, summary tables, and questions that direct evaluation, this new edition is enhanced by the edition of 5 new chapters, all incorporating the latest research resulting in new & refined approaches to common symptoms encountered in clinical medicine

Department of Community & Family Medicine

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