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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459862303321

Autore

Rasul Nairah

Titolo

Differential diagnosis in primary care [[electronic resource] /] / Nairah Rasul, Mehmood Syed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell/BMJ Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-77482-4

9786612774829

1-4443-9124-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SyedMehmood

Disciplina

616.07/5

Soggetti

Diagnosis, Differential

Primary care (Medicine)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Head and neck -- Ophthalmology -- Ear, nose, and throat -- Thorax -- Abdomen -- Urinary tract -- Women's health -- Men's health -- Musculoskeletal -- Skin, hair, and nails -- Mental health -- Miscellaneous.

Sommario/riassunto

Formulating a diagnosis purely on the basis of clinical judgement can be fraught with difficulty and danger, yet this is the challenge faced every day by Primary Care physicians, who rarely have access to the diagnostic tools available to hospital-based colleagues. Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care has been specifically written with the needs of the Primary Care physician in mind. It examines the potential causes of common presentations and aims to help the physician differentiate between diseases, using history and examination alone. Diseases are listed in descending order of prevalence,