Offers medical students with some basic principles of diagnosis and management, medico-legal pitfalls and roles of evidence in primary care. Using practical examples, this book describes the mental process of arriving at a clinical diagnosis, with emphasis on important signs or symptoms and investigations to look out for.

Takes elementary physical diagnosis a step further by identifying the possible meaning of examination findings. This book is part physical examination, part differential diagnosis, and is suitable for clinicians.

Intended to help beginning clinicians and trainees to more efficiently gather, organize, assess and diagnose a patient's history and current illness.

Provides practical guidelines on how to make sense of and interpret the evidence that is available, with information on how to avoid straying beyond evidence into conjecture, supposition, and wishful thinking. This book covers size, trial design, harm as well as benefit, and health economics and management evidence.

Presents the different aspects of clinical chemistry for the senior clinical medical student or junior doctor on the ward. This book explains the rationale underlying the common clinical chemistry tests to request and gives guidance as to what action is required on receipt of abnormal results.

Offers thorough training in recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds. This two audio CDs provide 74 examples of breath sounds and 87 examples of heart sounds. It also includes over 200 illustrations that explains breath and heart sound fundamentals, including anatomy, physiology, and best auscultation sites.

Offers an approach to health assessment for the pediatric client. This title begins with a general description of history taking and includes approaches to children at various ages, nutritional assessment, and measurement and evaluation of vital signs. It focuses on 'how to' information, including how and what to assess in each body system.

Filled with information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders to help deliver the best patient care, this medical reference features clinical focus on each disorder, as well as specific guidance on patient examinations. Designed for maximum clinical usefulness, it makes it easy to find the right information, right when you need it.

In the quest to improve the reliability of diagnostic criteria, there is a search for new approaches to understanding the etiological and pathophysiological mechanisms that can improve the validity of diagnoses. This text is an attempt to stimulate research and discussion in the field.

Suitable for medical students, junior doctors, trainee radiologists, and practising clinicians, this title explain how to interpret images; provide guidelines for interpreting images; discuss common diseases and the signs that can be seen using each imaging modality; and illustrate clinical problems with normal and abnormal images.

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Teaches students how to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients based on the clinical complaints they present.

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are commonly encountered at all levels of medical school including the final MBBS examination. This book discusses 170 commonly encountered OSCE scenarios, with a step-by-step approach to maximise your chances of success in the examination.

Includes stories of patients and their families, details of personal events, comedies and tragedies.

Written in a concise, easy-to-read style, this text covers various aspects of outpatient and inpatient care as well as descriptions of developments in medicine. It includes information on over 1,000 diseases and disorders with an emphasis on prevention and cost-effective treatments, featuring information on drug dosages.

Contains drawings and digital CXRs, together with secrets from the radiologists toolbox, helpful differential diagnoses, handy checklists, and key references. With a practical approach based on a clinical format, this book provides the useful knowledge needed for a logical approach to the analysis of the CXR.

A pocket-sized guide that presents the classic Bates approach to physical examination and history taking. It includes information on pain assessment. It also includes a chapter that presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care.

Useful for medical students, residents, and practitioners for interpreting electrocardiograms in children, this book teaches the vectorial approach to paediatric ECG interpretation in a practical way. Written by paediatric cardiologists, it contains over 200 actual size ECG tracings, review questions, and case studies for board review.

Examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. This book provides coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. It includes chapters that discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, and more.

Provides guidance on diagnosis in general practice, from the patient's first presentation with a symptom to the final establishment of a diagnosis or referral for further investigation. This book also explains the principles of evidence-based diagnosis and demonstrates the power, and the difficulties, of an evidence-based approach.