Family violence affects more people than cancer, yet it's an issue that receives far less attention. Health professionals are often the first to encounter victims of abuse and neglect, yet, despite their critical role, studies continue to describe health professionals as lacking the training in ways to identify and treat family violence. Confronting Chronic Neglect offers recommendations on how to raise awareness of this problem on all levels and ...

The MGH Primer of Outpatient Medicine covers all areas of adult ambulatory care. It is an introduction to ambulatory care for house staff as they start their ambulatory care rotations, as well as for medical students as they start their clerkships. The book includes evidence-based citations, advice on how to survive the rotation, ABIM-style board review questions, and many boxes, tables, and bulleted lists. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.
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This book has been designed to help the practicing clinician to appropriately select and interpret diagnostic tests without the burden of information useful only to the pathologist or laboratory. In outline format with tables and charts, the book presents a large volume of information that can be quickly reviewed. The focus is on diagnosing diseases and the table of contents is organized by system or disease rather than tests performed. A ...

Serious physical illness may often lead to psychiatric disorders. In this book, noted Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., offers a concise guide that will help primary-care physicians evaluate and treat patients who are delicious, demoralized, thinking of suicide, or refusing to follow medical advice.<P>Although such patients exhibit emotional distress, cognitive disturbance, or maladaptive behavior, Slavney explains, the ...

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to family history. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become ...

Thoroughly updated with the most current clinical trials and the latest American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines, this pocket-sized handbook provides quick, easy access to clinical trial data that support or refute clinical interventions. Each chapter summarizes the pathophysiology of a disease and the guideline-recommended diagnostic tests and treatments, and presents synopses of the major clinical trials for all ...

This book offers immediate at-hand information to third and fourth year medical students and residents, providing both an overview of common topics and specific management strategies. Internists and family practitioners will rely on PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE CARE OF AMBULATORY PATIENT, 2nd Edition for its formulary, differential diagnostics, and evaluation of common psychiatric and orthopedic problems. ...

Expert and experienced authors discuss a broad spectrum of topics related to the care of patients before, during and after return from travel. Prevention, including vaccination, and avoidance play an important role in travel medicine and are examined thoroughly. Special populations are discussed in detail, including infants, children, adolescents, the pregnant traveler, the immunosupressed traveler, and the extreme traveler. ...

Package Components - Buck: Saunders 2006 ICD-9-CM, Volumes 1 and 2, 1e (1-4160-3247-9)
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Updates the policy context of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) patient safety initiative; documents the current priorities and activities undertaken; and assesses contributions of health information technology projects and dissemination actions to support adoption of evidence-based safe practices. Discusses implications for future AHRQ policy, programming, and research; suggests ways to strengthen AHRQ activities.
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