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User' Guides to the Medical Literature:
A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2e
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature:
Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 2e
Care at the Close of Life:
Evidence and Experience

The Rational Clinical Examination:
Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis

Simel/Rennie
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ISBN: 0071590307
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Table of Contents


1. A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical Examination
UPDATE: Primer on Precision and Accuracy

2. Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

3. Is Listening for Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension?
UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits

4. Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem?
UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking

5. Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis?
UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult

6. Does This Patient Have Ascites?
UPDATE: Ascites
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Ascites

7. What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About Low Back Pain?
UPDATE: Low Back Pain
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Low Back Pain

8. Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer?
UPDATE: Breast Cancer
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Breast Cancer

9. Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit?
UPDATE: Carotid Bruit
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Carotid Bruit

10. Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel

11. Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure?
UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure

12. Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis?
UPDATE: Cholecystitis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Cholecystitis

13. Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation?
UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease

14. Does This Patient Have Clubbing?
UPDATE: Clubbing
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Clubbing

15. Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed?
UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence

16(A). Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults?
16(B). Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure?
UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure

17. Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
UPDATE: Death
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Death

18(A). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis?
18(B). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis?
UPDATE: Deep Venous Thrombosis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Deep Venous Thrombosis

19. Is This Patient Clinically Depressed?
UPDATE: Depression
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Depression

20. Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer?
UPDATE: Family History of Cancer
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Family History of Cancer

21. Does This Patient Have a Goiter?
UPDATE: Goiter
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Goiter

22. Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly?
UPDATE: Hepatomegaly
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Hepatomegaly

23. Does This Patient Have Hypertension?
UPDATE: Hypertension
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Hypertension

24. Is This Adult Patient Hypovolemic?
UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Adult
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Adult

25. Is This Child Dehydrated?
UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Child
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Child

26. Does This Patient Have Influenza?
UPDATE: Influenza
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Influenza

27. Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee?
UPDATE: Knee Ligaments and Menisci
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Knee Ligaments and Menisci

28. Is This Patient Adult Malnourished?
UPDATE: Malnourishment
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Malnourishment

29. Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma?
UPDATE: Melanoma
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Melanoma

30. Does This Adult Patient Have Acute Meningitis?
UPDATE: Meningitis, Adult
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Meningitis, Adult

31. Is This Woman Perimenopoausal?
UPDATE: Menopause
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Menopause

32. Does This Patient Have Aortic Regurgitation?
UPDATE: Murmur, Diastolic
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Murmur, Diastolic

33. Does This Patient Have an Abnormal Systolic Murmur?
UPDATE: Murmur, Systolic
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Murmur, Systolic

34. Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis?
UPDATE: Myasthenia Gravis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Myasthenia Gravis

35. Is This Patient Having a Myocardial Infarction?
UPDATE: Myocardial Infarction
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Myocardial Infarction

36. Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis?
UPDATE: Osteoporosis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Osteoporosis

37. Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media?
UPDATE: Otitis Media, Child
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Otitis Media, Child

38. Does This Patient Have Parkinson Disease?
UPDATE: Parkinsonism
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Parkinsonism

39. Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin?
UPDATE: Penicillin Allergy
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Penicillin Allergy

40. Does This Adult Patient Have Community-Acquired Pneumonia?
UPDATE: Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adult
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adult

41. Does This Infant Have Pneumonia?
UPDATE: Pneumonia, Infant and Child
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Pneumonia, Infant and Child

42. Is This Patient Pregnant?
UPDATE: Early Pregnancy
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Early Pregnancy

43. Does This Patient Have Pulmonary Embolism?
UPDATE: Pulmonary Embolus
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Pulmonary Embolus

44. Does This Patient Have an Instability of the Shoulder or a Labrum Lesion?
UPDATE: Shoulder Instability
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Shoulder Instability

45. Does This Patient Have Sinusitis?
UPDATE: Sinusitis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Sinusitis

46. Does This Patient Have Splenomegaly?
UPDATE: Splenomegaly
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Splenomegaly

47. Does This Patient Have Strep Throat?
UPDATE: Streptococcal Pharyngitis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Streptococcal Pharyngitis

48. Is This Patient Having a Stroke?
UPDATE: Stroke
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Stroke

49. Does This Patient Have Temporal Arteritis?
UPDATE: Temporal Arteritis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Temporal Arteritis

50. Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection?
UPDATE: Thoracic Aortic Dissection
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Thoracic Aortic Dissection

51. Does This Woman Have an Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection?
UPDATE: Urinary Tract Infection, Women
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Urinary Tract Infection, Women

52. What is Causing This Patient's Vaginal Symptoms?
UPDATE: Vaginitis
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Vaginitis

53. Does This Dizzy Patient Have a Serious Form of Vertigo?
UPDATE: Vertigo
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE UPDATE: Vertigo











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