OVERVIEW:

The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, A Practical Approach, is an evidence-based, rapid-reference guide to commonly-encountered patient conditions. Each chapter covers a particular symptom, and provides a logical series of steps and decision points which narrows the list of potential causes until the correct diagnosis is ultimately established.

The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, A Practical Approach, is part of Lexi-Comp's Clinician's Guide Series, which includes the Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine and the Clinician's Guide to Internal Medicine.

THE BENEFITS:

Experience is the best teacher when it comes to patient care. The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis is designed to mimic the thought processes of a seasoned clinician, linking a patient's symptoms to diagnosis through a series of logical steps. This reference is unique in that it is symptom-based, not disease-based. It takes the initial presenting symptom and proceeds in an orderly fashion, using physiology as the basis for developing the symptom complex into a known disease entity.

• Unique, step-by-step, approach to the evaluation of a patient's symptoms
• Practical advice not readily available in standard textbooks
• Ideal point-of-care reference providing clear, fast answers
• Guidance to help you make informed clinical diagnoses
• User-friendly format
• Over 35 algorithms that closely parallel the information in each chapter