This quick-reference pocket book is designed for those who face diagnostic problems in brief office visits. It offers evidence-based guidelines on which key questions to ask and what data to obtain in order to provide sound diagnoses of common adult problems. With more than 140 chapters in eighteen sections, this reference covers mental health problems, symptoms signs in each organ system, laboratory abnormalities, and radiologic abnormalities.
• Emphasizes key patient history questions, physical findings, and laboratory determinations
• Evidence-based references support each discussion
• Second Edition thoroughly updated by new editors
• New chapters cover corneal foreign body, hematuria, brain natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure, and D-dimer
• Improved, more user-friendly format includes more quick-scanning bullets and tables