Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, "Pocket Medicine" provides key clinical ...
A "New Yorker" staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
This book is a primary review tool to prepare students for both the internal medicine clerkship and the end-rotation NBME shelf examination. This logical alternative to several limited-focus books blends a bullet-outline format students prefer in a review book with comprehensive paragraphs, as needed, for optimal preparation. It features ...
This text provides comprehensive coverage of more than 250 nursing skills and procedures. This edition includes 22 new skills, such as treatment for pressure ulcers, measuring body temperature via the tympanic membrane, pulse oximetry, central venous pressure and transtracheal oxygen. The information is supplemented by illustrations that clearly ...
This updated third edition provides accurate, practical information and instruction in phlebotomy procedures and techniques with a comprehensive background in theory and principles. This new edition reflects the latest NCCLS guidelines for venipuncture and skin puncture, new safety issues and equipment, NAACLS competencies, lab computerization ...
This best-selling resource is completely updated, and still the most easy-to-use and effective high-yield review for USMLE Step 3. Covering all specialties and subspecialties included on the exam, it's perfect for the busy house officer who needs a review that hits all the important and commonly tested concepts in a concise format. Over 100 high ...
A best-selling core textbook for medical students taking medical biochemistry, "Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry" links biochemical concepts to physiology and pathophysiology, using hypothetical patient vignettes to illustrate core concepts. Completely updated to include full-color art, expanded clinical notes, and bulleted summaries at the end ...
The fourth edition of this popular text features over 550 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. Step-by-step instructions for each skill are presented in vivid detail. Full-color photos and illustrations complement the text throughout. An updated overview of principles and concepts is included in each chapter, with assessment, planning, ...
The text builds from a history of the field, through research methods, and then on to contemporary issues (living with chronic illness, behaviours affecting health and more). This book should be of interest to undergraduates of health psychology.
This exam review prepares students for all 10 national certification exams in phlebotomy, including ACA, ASCP, NCA, ASPT, IAPA, NAHP, NCCT, NPA, NHA, and AMT and follows the accreditation guidelines for both the NAACLS and the CLSI (formerly NCCLS). The book is written in a comprehensive outline format and includes content review in over 800 ...
This text shows readers how to identify the right codes for the diagnoses or services provided and how to use those codes to obtain reimbursement correctly. It covers Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), HCFA Common Procedure Coding System and Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation & Management Services, ICD-9-CM, Official Coding Guidelines, ...
This thoroughly updated 5th Edition provides concise and carefully structured full-color instruction in the handling and analysis of non-blood body fluids.Readers will learn how to handle and preserve the integrity of body fluid specimens and how to keep themselves and their laboratory safe from infectious agents!Practical, focused, and reader ...
The sixth edition of this well-known text has been fully revised and updated to meet the changing curricula of medicinal chemistry courses. Emphasis is on patient-focused pharmaceutical care and on the pharmacist as a therapeutic consultant, rather than a chemist. A new disease state management section explains appropriate therapeutic options for ...
This product contains a student access code for courses that have adopted the Blackboard online course for Willis: Medical Terminology: A Programmed Learning Approach to the Language of Health Care. The text provides a concise, self-directed approach to studying and learning medical terminology. Geared toward efficient memorisation, a sequential ...
This text describes the clinical skills and laboratory procedures used in the medical office. It presents step-by-step directions, with rationales, of various procedures, including: the checking of vital signs; the administration of medication; collection of specimens; emergency procedures; and tests for allergies, pregnancy and mononucleosis. The ...
This fourth edition of "Boards and Wards" offers an essential review for clinical rotations and for the USMLE Steps 2 and 3. Written in a succinct, high-yield outline format, the book features new board-formatted questions and answers with detailed explanations, and covers each discipline of medicine appearing on the USMLE Steps 2 and 3, including ...
In its Sixth Edition, this acclaimed text continues to be the most student-friendly clinical chemistry text available, featuring clear explanations that strike just the right balance of analytic principles, techniques, and the correlation of results with disease states. All chapters have been thoroughly updated with the latest information as well ...
Written by and for nurse practitioners, this practical textbook focuses on what primary care providers need to learn and practice drug therapy. With an overall emphasis on patient teaching and health promotion, you will learn how to provide effective patient teaching about medications and how to gain patient compliance. Drug coverage focuses on ...
This newly revised, performance-based text covers the theory and techniques of basic clinical laboratory procedures. Workers in physicians' office laboratories, small clinics, hospital laboratories, public health departments, and point-of-care testing facilities will find this guide a useful resource covering the procedures they perform. The ...
Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3/e serves as a comprehensive reference for a variety of research situations. This edition reflects the contemporary focus on evidence-based practice in health care, and the essential concepts for understanding analysis and research design. Expanded topics include measures of diagnostic ...
This text presents material for the beginning clinician in the important areas of genetics, immunology, and infectious diseases and analyzes disease mechanisms as well as the signs and symptoms of different disease syndromes. Organized by the major body systems and organs, the function of each is discussed in normal and abnormal conditions. Also ...
Written by Dr. Brochert, who scored in the 99th percentile in Steps1 and 2 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), this comprehensive, high-yield review book has been completely updated. It is cram packed with clinical information that has appeared on recent administrations of the USMLE Step 2, and will enable medical students to "crush the ...
"Health Psychology, 6/E" by Shelley Taylor continues to set the standard for the Health Psychology market. One of the foremost researchers in health psychology, Shelley Taylor has thoroughly revised this text to incorporate the latest research findings in the field. The result is a text that conveys the increasing sophistication and complexity of ...
This knowledge-packed resource provides a comprehensive yet concise review of primary-care information for students and clinicians preparing for the Certification (PANCE) and Recertification (PANRE) examinations. Readers can test their knowledge with over 1,100 Board-type questions. Written by leaders in PA education and clinical practice, this ...
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