Serving as a reference for both medical students and those working in the medical and allied professions, this dictionary contains over 11,000 entries, covering various aspects of medical science. These entries are complemented by over 140 illustrations and diagrams.

Explains the basics of evidence-based medicine. This text explains the meaning of critical appraisal and terms such as 'numbers needed to treat', 'how to search the literature', 'evaluate the different types of papers' and 'put the conclusions to clinical use'.

Symptom to Diagnosis, Second Edition: An Evidence-Based Guide

Deals with diagnosis on a molecular level, discussing molecular biological techniques used to identify the underlying molecular defects in inherited disease. This book includes pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics relating to different cancer therapies.

This handbook describes the diagnostic process clearly and logically, aiding medical students and others who wish to improve their diagnostic performance and to learn more about the diagnostic process.

Data Interpretation features in all clinical assessments in medical school and on hospital rotations. This book contains subject-based chapters giving notes on how to deal with the kinds of data that doctors need to interpret in every day practice. It includes tables, diagrams and flowcharts and each chapter features Don't forget' boxes.

Presents differentials, distinguishing features, possible investigations and key points, with tips and warnings, for over 100 symptoms commonly seen in primary care. This book covers topics such as - anal itching, anal swelling, crying babies, eyelid problems, facial rashes and leg ulcers.

Describes the practical skills which every clinician must acquire and develop in order to evolve diagnostic procedures and management strategies and plans. This book aims to document and explain how to talk with a patient; take the history from the patient; and examine a patient.

Your one-stop-shop for final examination, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills is the first truly comprehensive pocket guide to clinical examination and practical skills for medical students and junior doctors. Providing clear and user-friendly guidance on all aspects of history taking, physical examination, common practical procedures, data interpretation and ...

Conventional medicine and new branches of biomedicine are challenging many issue-related questions: How reliable are biomarkers for any given pathology? How to distinguish between the highly predictive power of innovation and quackery in diagnostics? This book addresses these issues and provides some clues for plausible solutions.

Facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. This title features comprehensive algorithmic decision trees that guide you through more than 245 disorders organized by sign, symptom, problem, or laboratory abnormality.

This text looks at cross-sectional CT and MR imaging and highlights the current understanding and concepts in the state-of-the-art imaging of a wide range of diseases. It is divided into 12 sections with multiple choice questions to test the reader, accompanied by expanded answers.

This new handbook digests and presents the key trials influencing current clinical practice, selected and summarised by figureheads in the medical and surgical specialties. The handbook format allows readers to quickly access and assimilate the evidence behind the practices and interventions experienced every day.

This text serves as a practical guide to the effective diagnosis and treatment of alcohol and drug addictive disorders. It offers clear, step-by-step recommendations on the selection and application of both pharmacological and psychosocial therapies.

Offers medical students and junior doctors with a revision and reference tool when preparing to take a patient's history. This title includes a number of practice scenarios that help the reader to practise history taking prior to examinations and seeing real patients on the wards.

This workbook can be used as a stand alone self learning book, either for groups or individuals.

A textbook of physical examination, history-taking, and health assessment with an emphasis on differential diagnosis and variations across the lifespan. This book conveys a patient-centered approach to physical examination.

Offers on-the-spot test selection and interpretation of common diagnostic tests - including costs and risks.