Product Description

The only book dedicated specifically to symptom evaluation, this best seller is a quick-reference guide to over 100 commonly seen symptoms in adults and children. The revised Fifth Edition features new geriatric considerations, new pearls and pitfalls to avoid, and new information on medications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #669979 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 377 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071377652
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
This quick-reference guide to over 100 commonly seen symptoms in adults and children allows you to quickly and accurately evaluate and treat a patient's complaint. Thoroughly cross-referenced, The Common Symptom Guide includes insightful guidelines on:
* Patient and family history
* Physical examination
* Diagnostic considerations
* Medications

NEW IN THIS EDITION:
* Geriatric considerations
* Updated medications section
* New information of health assessment website

This quick-reference guide to over 100 commonly seen symptoms in adults and children allows you to quickly and accurately evaluate and treat a patient's complaint. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, The Common Symptom Guide includes insightful guidelines on:
* Patient and family history
* Physical examination
* Diagnostic considerations
* Medications
* Measures that matter to patients

NEW TO THIS EDITION: a website that improves patient outcomes and clinician understanding of patient needs.

About the Author

John H. Wasson, M.D., Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. He holds the Herman O. West Chair in Geriatrics.

B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., W&J Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, and Director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Mary C. LaBrecque, B.S.N., Instructor in Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Harold C. Sox, Jr., M.D., M.A.C.P., Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Robert Pantell, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.

Customer Reviews

The Common Symptom Guide
Excellent for physicians or nurse practitioners who diagnose illness on a regular basis.

best for csa review
This book has common complain plus what to ask in addition to that complain with D/D and superficial physical diagnosis.