Helping Hands: An Introduction to Diagnostic Strategy and Clinical Reasoning

ISBN-13: 9781138330863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 154 str.

Caroline Rodgers; Richard Harrington

Opis

This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. Clinical Reasoning. 3. Diagnostic Strategy. 4. The History. 5. Examination. 6. Spot Diagnosis and Pattern Recognition. 7. Red and Yellow Flags. 8. Restricted Rule-Outs. 9. Probablistic Reasoning. 10. Test of Time and Test of Treatment. 11. Further Cases.

O autorze

Caroline Rodgers is a GP Trainee, Cambridge VTS, Health Education East of England, Cambridgeshire, UK

Richard Harrington is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Dept Primary Care Health Sciences and Associate Director, Graduate-entry Medicine, University of Oxford and a GP Partner, The Rycote Practice, Thame, Oxfordshire, UK