Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care - E-Book

Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care - E-Book

<p>Take the ‘next step’ in health assessment!<b> Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 5th Edition</b> goes beyond basic history and physical examination to help you master the diagnostic reasoning process. You’ll develop this key skill by following assessment guidelines that focus on a specific complaint rather than beginning with a previously established diagnosis or disease entity. Written by advanced practice nursing experts Joyce Dains, Linda Baumann, and Pamela Scheibel, this edition includes new chapters on evidence-based preventive health screening and on heartburn and indigestion, along with a new full-color design. Master the differential diagnosis process outlined in this book, and you’ll be able to accurately diagnose the majority of patients seen in today’s primary care settings.</p><ul><b><li>A clear, consistent diagnostic reasoning process</b> takes you to the next step of health assessment — beyond basic history and physical examination to diagnostic reasoning.</li><li><b><i>Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History</i> sections</b> 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.</li><li><b><i>Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination</i> sections</b> explain how to perform more advanced diagnostic techniques and interpret the findings.</li><li><b><i>Key Questions</b></i> 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.</li><li><b><i>Laboratory and Diagnostic Studies</i> sections</b> outline the types of studies that might be appropriate based on the focused history and focused physical examination.</li><li><b><i>Differential Diagnosis</i> sections</b> offer the most common diagnoses for each patient problem and summarize the history and physical examination findings, along with recommended laboratory and diagnostic studies.</li><li><b><i>Differential Diagnosis</i> tables</b> provide a quick-reference summary of possible diagnoses for each patient problem.</li><li><b><i>Evidence-Based Practice</i> boxes </b>— more than 30 are NEW —<b> </b>summarize the scientific evidence related to the diagnosis of patient problems.</li><li><b>Alphabetical Table of Contents </b>provides a convenient listing of common health problems.</li> </ul>