The complete patient history - Hardcover

Highlighting the medical history as the core art of patient care, this book provides the tools to achieve clinical excellence

· Explores the techniques of patient-centered and doctor-centered interviewing

· Presents the differential diagnosis, interview framework, alarm symptoms, focused questions with likelihood ratios, prognosis, and clinical pearls for each symptom

· Integrates historical data with the epidemiology, prevalence, and prognosis of the most common conditions

A comprehensive and inspiring introduction to the timeless art of history-taking, The Patient History presents the fundamental principles that guide this process and enable health care professionals to establish the differential diagnosis for a given symptom.

FEATURES:

· Offers a patient-centered approach to the medical history by emphasizing symptoms rather than diseases

· Applies principles of evidence-based medicine to the clinical history

· Illustrates the history-taking process through the discussion of 60 common clinical symptoms, such as dizziness, weight loss, dyspnea, chest pain, nausea and vomiting, low back pain, memory loss, and anxiety

· Includes diagnostic approach algorithms to summarize important concepts

· Focuses on actual questions for use in daily practice

· Provides tips for effective interviewing

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Lawrence M. Tierney, MD Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Associate Chief of Medical Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Kraytman, Maurice, M.D., University of Brussels, Belgium