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Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests editors, Diana Nicoll ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicoll, Diana, Author.
- Nicoll
- Series:
- McGraw-Hill's AccessPharmacy
- A Lange medical book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques--Handbooks.
- Diagnosis, Differential--Handbooks.
- Medical Subjects:
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques--Handbooks.
- Diagnosis, Differential--Handbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 640 pages) : ill.
- Edition:
- 6th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York: McGraw Hill Medical Publishing Division 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of more than 450 commonly used diagnostic tests COVERS: Basic principles of diagnostic testing, common blood, urine and cerebrospinal fluid laboratory tests, therapeutic drug monitoring, microbiologic test selection and interpretation and diagnostic imaging tests by body system , electrocardiography, and differential diagnosis tables & algorithmsTests used in internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, neurology and obstetrics and gynecology INCLUDES: Costs and risks of diagnostic testsEvidence-based informationDiseases associated with abnormal test results, including test sensitivitiesFull literature citations with PubMed (PMID) numbers included for each referenceMore than 24 NEW clinical laboratory test entries, 6 NEW differential diagnosis tables5 NEW diagnostic algorithms NEW sections on point-of-care testing, provider-performed microscopy, pharmacogenetic testing, and diagnostic echocardiography.
- Contents:
- Diagnostic testing and medical decision making
- Point-of-care testing and provider-performed microscopy
- Common laboratory tests: selection and interpretation
- Therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacogenetic testing: principles and test interpretation
- Microbiology: test selection
- Diagnostic imaging: test selection and interpretation
- Basic electrocardiography and echocardiography
- Diagnostic tests in differential diagnosis
- Diagnostic algorithms
- Nomograms and reference material.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pocket guide to diagnostic tests.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69835-7
- 9786613675316
- 0-07-176624-3
- OCLC:
- 817089304
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