Advanced health assessment & clinical diagnosis in primary care - Joyce E Dains

Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 2/e is designed for beginning advanced practice students and/or novice clinicians who will be using history and physical examination skills in the clinical setting. Its purpose is to take the reader to the next step of health assessment, beyond basic history and physical examination and into a diagnostic reasoning process. It picks up where books like Seidel: Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination end. The text focuses the physical examination around a specific chief complaint rather than a diagnosis or disease entity. The primary care provider who masters the differential diagnosis in this text will be able to accurately diagnose the majority of patients seen in practice today.

Each chapter is organized in five major areas. They are Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History; Key Questions; Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination; Laboratory and Diagnostic Studies; and Differential Diagnosis.