The Bellevue guide to outpatient medicine : an evidence-based guide to primary care / chief editors, Nate Link, Michael Tanner ; associate chief editors, Danielle Ofri, Lloyd Wasserman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellevue Hospital, Content Provider.

Link, Nate.

Tanner, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primary care (Medicine).

Ambulatory medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : BMJ, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Bellevue Guide to Health Care represents a collaboration among primary care and specialist physicians in the Department of Medicine at New York School of Medicine. It is intended for use by teachers, students and practitioners of primary care and in the hospital outpatient department. The Guide presents data about prevalence of disease, accuracy and diagnosis from congestive heart failure to domestic violence. Advice about patient management is interwoven with annotated references in a unique two column format providing the actual data upon which recommendations are based. (For example, re

Contents:

Contents; Consultants; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1: Alcohol problems; 2: Anemia; 3: Anticoagulation; 4: Arterial disease of the lower extremities; 5: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 6: Atrial fibrillation; 7: Breast disease; 8: Cancer screening; 9: Cerebrovascular disease; 10: Coronary artery disease; 11: Cough, bronchitis, and pneumonia; 12: Depression, anxiety, and somatization; 13: Dermatologic disease; 14: Diabetes mellitus; 15: Dizziness; 16: Domestic violence; 17: Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, and gastroesophageal reflux disease; 18: Fatigue; 19: Headache

20: Heart failure21: Hepatitis A, B, and C; 22: HIV disease; 23: Hyperlipidemia; 24: Hypertension; 25: Irritable bowel syndrome; 26: Liver and biliary disease; 27: Low back pain; 28: Menopause and hormone replacement; 29: Musculoskeletal pain; 30: Obesity; 31: Osteoporosis; 32: Palpitations; 33: Renal insufficiency; 34: Seizure disorders; 35: Sexually transmitted diseases; 36: Smoking cessation; 37: Thyroid disease; 38: Tuberculosis and PPD testing; 39: Upper respiratory infection and allergic rhinitis; 40: Valvular heart disease; 41: Venous thromboembolism

Appendix A: 30 Leading causes of death worldwide - 1990Appendix B: 15 Leading causes of death, United States - 1998; Appendix C: Estimated new cancer cases and deaths by sex for all sites, United States - 2000*; Appendix D: Centers for disease control notifiable diseases, United States - 1998; Appendix E: Recommendations for primary and secondary prevention from the US Preventive Services Task Force; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-28533-8

9786610285334

0-585-39401-6

OCLC:

475961385