Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 7th Edition
- Content on pediatrics is integrated throughout to give a true lifespan focus.
- List of Chapters by Body System inside the front cover provides an alternate means of accessing ebook content.
- Differential Diagnosis tables provide a quick-reference summary of possible diagnoses for each patient problem.
- Information on screening for abuse and sexual assault helps identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
- Information on screening for abuse and sexual assault helps you identify patients who might need additional support or intervention.
- Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines chapter helps you to screen for common asymptomatic conditions and promote wellness.
- Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination sections explain how to perform more advanced diagnostic techniques and interpret the findings.
- Compact, convenient size makes it easy to carry this reference in a lab-coat pocket, and colored thumb tabs make it easier to find the information you need.
- Laboratory and Diagnostic Studies sections outline the types of tests that might be appropriate based on the focused history and focused physical examination.
- Clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process takes you to the next step of health assessment — beyond basic history and physical examination to diagnostic reasoning and clinical diagnosis.
- UNIQUE! Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse (TGD) Patients chapter equips you with the necessary knowledge to properly assess and care for this underserved patient population.
- Key Questions guide you through assessment and toward an accurate diagnosis by listing questions to ask the patient, followed by explanations of what the patient’s responses might signify.
- Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History sections use “self-questions” to walk you through the thinking process involved in obtaining a pertinent, relevant, problem-specific history that will assist in differential diagnosis.
- Differential Diagnosis sections offer the most common diagnoses for each patient problem and summarize the history and physical examination findings, along with recommended laboratory and diagnostic studies.
- Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) content on advanced assessment serves as a perfect complement to Ball et al.: Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination and other health assessment textbooks.
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