This second edition of Primary Care continues to deliver succinct, current, and integrated information on the assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with commonly seen conditions in primary care settings. Written and edited by APNs in a wide range of specialties and other health professionals, it has been ......
This is the first book to clearly and fully demonstrate the process of using theory to guide nursing research and professional practice. It describes a step-by-step format for evaluating nursing theory's applicability to research, a format that links theory (both middle-range and grand theory) to research on a wide range of clinical populations ......
Provides physicians and residents training in physical medicine and rehabilitation with a concise description of common medical complications encountered on an in-patient medical rehabilitation unit or free-standing facility. This title focuses on the major diagnostic categories of disabilities that are admitted for in-patient rehabilitation.
Clinical Skills for Medical Students is a US adaptation of Clinical Skills for OSCEs, fourth edition. It is designed for international markets and covers virtually all the skills that are taught and examined at medical school.
Clinical Skills Explained bridges the gap between the major textbooks and the OSCE crammer books; it could be the only clinical skills books you need for the introductory clinical years!
The only volume specifically designed to meet the objectives of DNP courses, this textbook provides the knowledge and skills necessary for DNP students and faculty and advanced practice nurses to conduct a comprehensive systematic review (CSR). It sets forth a rigorous, step-by-step approach to the process of conducting a literature search ......
Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidity Over the Course of Life reviews the comorbidity of mental and chronic physical syndromes in an epidemiological and life course context, offering fresh insights and identifying crucial clues to the etiology and nosological distinctiveness of both physical and mental disorders.
Since publication of the initial version of Plagues & Poxes in 1987, which had the optimistic subtitle The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease, the rise of new diseases such as AIDS and the deliberate modification and weaponisation of diseases such as anthrax have changed the way we perceive infectious disease. With major modifications to deal with ......
Factitious disorder presents one of the most challenging variants of psychopathology in medicine. The book is the first for professionals to offer a comprehensive overview of current thinking about patients who feign or induce illness -- in themselves or others -- to accrue the intangible benefits of the "sick" role.