Publication Date: June 7, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0323074170 ISBN-13 :978-0,323,074,179 Edition: 4
Design advanced practice nurses and advanced practice nurses students, as well as a physician’s assistant students and practitioners, senior health assessment and clinical diagnosis in primary care, 4th edition, is a practical resource that needs your “next step” health assessment beyond the basic history and physical examination, and diagnostic reasoning process. Accessible and concise, it is close to the physical examination focused on a specific chief complaint rather than a diagnosis of the disease. Each chapter is divided into four main areas: the focus of history focused physical examination, laboratory and diagnostic studies, and differential diagnosis. Who master the diagnostic reasoning process in this text will be able to accurately diagnose most conditions, they will see in clinical practice.
Easy-to-follow format consistent with the organization, and improve your ability to understand and accurate diagnostic reasoning process in the implementation of the different elements:
Looking at the historical part of a related, related to the history of the specific problem to go in your thought process, which will contribute to the differential diagnosis.
The main issues highlighted what questions to ask the patient, the patient’s response to what it means to explain and guide you toward an accurate assessment and accurate diagnosis.
Focus on the physical examination section describes how to carry out more advanced diagnostic techniques, and provide an explanation of the results.
What type of laboratory or diagnostic studies will be the chief complaint or suspected cases of laboratory diagnostic studies section provides a brief overview.
The differential diagnosis section contains the most commonly used in the differential diagnosis for each chief complaint and summarize the history and physical examination results, and laboratory and diagnostic studies show.
The differential diagnosis table provides a possible diagnosis in a glance.
Reorder the contents of the table, in alphabetical order of the patient’s problem, rather than the body system to simplify and speed up information retrieval. Body system chapters include a list for reference.
Three new chapters:
Chapter 23: Palpitations
Chapter 36: weight loss / gain (unintentional)
Chapter 38: Abdominal perspective
Additional boxes of evidence-based practice to provide the most effective examination of additional research-based tips, more accurate diagnosis.
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