Synopsis

Today's Best Practice In Your Pocket

5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!

"The audience includes everyone who cares for patients, be they primary care clinicians, students, or residents in training. The editors, well known academic clinicians, have done a wonderful job....This is a valuable addition to every primary care clinician's personal library at a very reasonable price."—Doody's Review Service

This handy, pocket-sized guide draws information from many sources and presents them in an easy-to-use, comprehensive package for use by any primary care clinician. It offers quick-access to the latest guidelines for the most appropriate preventive services, screening methods, and treatment approaches commonly encountered in the outpatient setting.

Features:

• Updated annually
• Screening, prevention, and treatment guidelines for more than 60 common outpatient conditions
• Content drawn from the most reliable sources: government agencies, medical and scientific organizations, and expert panels
• Easy-to-follow guideline-based algorithms speed clinical decision-making
• Immunization schedule for children
• Website addresses for U.S. government agencies and professional organizations

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Major updates to disease management guidelines
• More international guidelines
• Appendix of Guidelines in Perspective identifying areas of discordance and where new directions are emerging

Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description: Current primary care guidelines are laid out in figures and tables in this annual update.
Purpose: The stated purpose is to provide an easily accessible reference of up-to-date primary care guidelines. Guidelines do change with new literature and this is a most helpful guide. It also can be carried in one's pocket.
Audience: The audience includes everyone who cares for patients, be they primary care clinicians, students, or residents in training. The editors, well known academic clinicians, have done a wonderful job.
Features: This is essentially a book of figures, tables, and an index. If there is any shortcoming it is the font size which is necessarily small to accommodate the information. Perhaps an online version would be helpful.
Assessment: This is a valuable addition to every primary care clinician's personal library at a very reasonable price.

Biography

Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine

Division of General Internal Medicine

University of California, San Francisco,

San Francisco, CA

Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor of Medicine & Division Head

Division of General Internal Medicine

University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine

Denver, CO