Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine Contributor(s): Pile, James C. (Author), Baudendistel, Thomas E. (Author), Harte, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470905654 ISBN-13: 9780470905654 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $74.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Diagnosis - Medical | Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis - Medical | Evidence-based Medicine |
Dewey: 616.075 |
LCCN: 2012030203 |
Series: Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7" W x 9.9" (0.95 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Introducing the first evidence-based casebook for hospital clinicians This book introduces illustrated, evidence-based clinical cases drawn from real-world hospital practice. Geared to the needs of hospital clinicians, Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine focuses on sharpening clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, giving readers the tools to recognize and diagnose a wide array of diseases, while promoting diagnostic safety in hospital medicine. Written by leading experts on the topics under discussion, this volume offers a hand-picked collection of case studies from the widely popular Clinical Care Conundrum (CCC) series found in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Each chapter presents a case to an expert clinician, who explains his or her approach to diagnosing challenging medical dilemmas. Each chapter concludes with a concise review of recent literature and, if applicable, with discussions of cognitive errors that may impact clinical diagnosis and patient care. Readers will find:
Clinical Care Conundrums is an indispensable reference for hospitalists, hospital-based physicians and midlevel providers, physicians-in-training, and the many other medical practitioners who come up against difficult cases on a daily basis. |