The Rational Clinical Examination

<p><b>Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality <span></span>authenticity or access to any online entitlements included with the product.</b></p><p><b><br/></b></p><p><b>The ultimate guide to the evidence-based clinical encounter</b></p><p><strong>A Doody's Core Title for 2015!</strong></p><p>This book is an excellent source of supported evidence that provides useful and clinically relevant information for the busy practitioner student resident or educator who wants to hone skills of physical diagnosis. It provides a tool to improve patient care by using the history and physical examination items that have the most reliability and efficiency.--<i>Annals of Internal Medicine</i></p><p>The evidence-based examination techniques put forth by <i>Rational Clinical Examination</i> is the sort that can be brought to bear on a daily basis - to save time increase confidence in medical decisions and help decrease unnecessary testing for conditions that do not require absolute diagnostic certainty. In the end the whole of this book is greater than its parts and can serve as a worthy companion to a traditional manual of physical examination.--<i>Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC)Proceedings</i></p><p><b>5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!</b><br/>Physical diagnosis has been taught to every medical student but this evidence-based approach now shows us why presenting one of medicine's most basic tenets in a new and challenging light. The format is extraordinary taking previously published material and updating the pertinent evidence since the initial publication affirming or questioning or refining the conclusions drawn from the data.<br/>This is a book for everyone who has studied medicine and found themselves doubting what they have been taught over the years not that they have been deluded but that medical traditions have been unquestionably believed because there was no evidence to believe otherwise. The authors have uncovered the truth.<br/>This extraordinary one-of-a-kind book is a valuable addition to every medical library.--<i>Doody's Review Service</i></p><p>Completely updated with new literature analyses here is a uniquely practical clinically relevant approach to the use of evidence in the content of physical examination. Going far beyond the scope of traditional physical examination texts this invaluable resource compiles and presents the evidence-based meanings of signs symptoms and results from physical examination maneuvers and other diagnostic studies. Page after page you'll find a focus on actual clinical questions and presentations making it an incomparably practical resource that you'll turn to again and again.</p><p>Importantly the high-yield content of <i>The Rational Clinical Examination</i> is significantly expanded and updated from the original JAMA articles much of it published here for the first time. It all adds up to a definitive ready-to-use clinical exam sourcebook that no student or clinician should be without.</p><p>FEATURES</p><ul><li>Packed with updated new and previously unpublished information from the original JAMA articles</li><li>Standardized template for every issue covered including: Case Presentation; Why the Issue Is Clinically Important; Research and Statistical Methods Used to Find the Evidence Presented; The Sensitivity and Specificity of Each Key Result; Resolution of the Case Presentation; and the Clinical Bottom Line</li><li>Completely updated with all-new literature searches and appraisals supplementing each chapter</li><li>Full-color format with dynamic clinical illustrations and images</li><li>Real-world focus on a specific clinical question in each chapter reflecting the way clinicians approach the practice of evidence-based medicine</li><li>More than 50 complete chapters on common and challenging clinical questions and patient presentations</li><li>Als