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Family Practice Guidelines

Publication Year:
2020
Edition:
5th Ed.
Author:
Cash, Jill C.; Glass, Cheryl A.; Mullen, Jenny
Publisher:
Springer Publishing Company
ISBN:
978-0-82-613583-4
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.7 (Family Practice)
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This bible of family practice for primary care clinicians and students provides current national practice guidelines for professional standards of care across the life span.
Concise and clearly organized, this resource features detailed, step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting, information on health promotion, care guidelines, dietary information, information on culturally responsive care, patient resources, and abundant patient-education handouts. Now in color with abundant images and illustrations, this fifth edition features thoroughly updated guidelines and recommendations to reflect latest in practice, as well as many new guidelines. Each of the diagnoses includes definition, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, and a care plan.

Key Features:
  • Presents information for disorders in consistent format for ease of use
  • Highlights key considerations with Practice Pointers
  • Provides individual care points for pediatric, pregnant, and geriatric patients
  • Includes 138 printable Patient Teaching Guides
  • Offers 18 procedure guidelines and routine health maintenance guidelines
  • Features appendices that provide guidelines on normal lab values, special diets, Tanner’s Sexual Maturity Stages, and teeth
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Springer Publishing Company
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Cash, Jill C.; Glass, Cheryl A.; Mullen, Jenny
ISBN:
978-0-82-613583-4
Specialty:
  • Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
Language:
English
Edition:
5th Ed.
Pages:
1112
Publication Year:
2020
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.7 (Family Practice)

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