The only book specifically on symptom evaluation, i.e., what to ask the patient and what parts of the physical exam to perform to thoroughly and accurately evaluate a patient's complaint. A quick-reference guide to over 100 commonly seen symptoms in adults and children. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, The Common Symptom Guide uses extensive tabular material to review pertinent considerations of patient and family history, physical examination and medications.

Common Symptom Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Walsh, B. Timothy

Sox, Harold C.

Wasson, John H.

LaBrecque, Mary C.

Pantell

Diseases & Physical Ailments

McGraw=Hill

Your family’s first line of defense! Provides expert medical advice on more than 100 common signs, symptoms, and problem areas—A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide is a wonderful addition to your medical reference library! 
 Can you describe what your symptoms look and feel like—but not know what they mean? Written by an experienced team of physicians and nurses, this handy guide answers your questions before you go to the doctor. 
 A-Z Common Symptom Answer Guide gives you— -A toolkit for matching your signs and symptoms to possible causes -A renowned medical team’s advice on symptoms from allergies to vomiting blood to irritability in children -Expert tips on relieving symptoms and helping yourself heal -What to avoid and what could make your condition worse -The questions your doctor will ask -Alphabetical listing of common symptoms for easy reference -A glossary of medical terms you may not know

a-z Common Symptom Answer Guide

Wasson,John

Walsh,Timothy

LaBrecque,Mary

Sox,Harold

Pantell,Robert

Oransky, Ivan

Walsh, Timothy B.

Parenting & Relationships

McGraw-Hill Professional

Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with a powerful framework for helping patients make decisions that increase the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that are most consistent with their preferences. This new edition provides a thorough understanding of the key decision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making both for individual patients and the wider health care arena. It shows how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies. Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for all experienced and learning clinicians who wish to fully understand and apply decision modelling, enhance their practice and improve patient outcomes. “There is little doubt that in the future many clinical analyses will be based on the methods described in Medical Decision Making, and the book provides a basis for a critical appraisal of such policies.” - Jerome P. Kassirer M.D., Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, US and Visiting Professor, Stanford Medical School, US

Medical Decision Making 2e

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Wiley/Blackwell

Common diagnostic tests: Use and interpretation

American College of Physicians

Detailed resource showing how to best make medical decisions while incorporating clinical practice guidelines and decision support systems Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with a powerful framework for helping patients make decisions that increase the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that are most consistent with their preferences. The text provides a thorough understanding of the key decision-making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making for both individual patients and the wider healthcare arena. It shows how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies. This newly revised and updated Third Edition includes updates throughout the text, especially concerning new developments in big data. Theory on writing guidelines is included as a practical tool for practitioners in the field. Written by three distinguished and highly qualified authors, Medical Decision Making includes information on: <ul> <li>How to be consider possible causes of a patient's problems, and how to characterize information gathered during medical interviews and physical examinations</li> <li>Bayes' theorem, covering its assumption, using it to interpret a sequence of tests, and using it when many diseases are under consideration</li> <li>How to describe test results (abnormal and normal, positive and negative), and measuring a test's capability to reveal the patient's true state</li> <li>Decisions trees, selecting a decision maker, quantifying uncertainty, expected value calculations, and sensitivity analysis</li> </ul> Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for a wide range of general practitioners and clinicians, as well as medical trainees at intermediate and advanced levels, who wish to fully understand and apply decision modeling, enhance their practice, and improve patient outcomes.

Medical Decision Making

Higgins, Michael C.

Owens, Douglas K.

Sanders Schmidler, Gillian

Medicine

Landmark Papers in Internal Medicine: The First 80 Years of Annals of Internal Medicine presents a selection of 33 papers published in one of the most prestigious journals in medicine which have significantly impacted (and continue to influence) medicine. Readers will enjoy significant papers on issues in: General Medicine Health Policy Cardiology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Hematology Infectious Diseases Nephrology Oncology Pulmonary Medicine Rheumatology Papers are reprinted in facsimile and feature commentary from experts from a broad range of internal medicine specialties. Landmark Papers in Internal Medicine is an important historical resource and an excellent gift for medical students and physicians!

Landmark Papers in Internal Medicine: The First 80 Years of Annals of Internal Medicine

Huth, Edward J.

Amer College of Physicians

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