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Pediatric Primary Care (Burns, Pediatric Primary Care)
This fourth edition of Pediatric Primary Care is prepared to assist the pediatric healthcare provider to understand the wide spectrum of conditions seen in primary care of children. Written by experienced authors familiar with the scope of practice and knowledge base of pediatric nurse practitioners, it emphasizes prevention as well as management, and presents guidelines on assessing children from infancy through adolescence. The text is appropriate for nurse practitioner, medical, and physician assistant students as well as experienced clinicians who want a current pediatric primary care resource with easy access to information.

  • Management chapters include numerous tables to facilitate differential diagnoses and summarize management strategies.
  • Resource boxes inform readers of helpful websites as well as organizations and useful printed materials.
  • The Environmental Health chapter is specially updated to address more key toxicants, and presents resources for diagnosis and management.
  • Theories and applications of complementary care are discussed in the Complementary Therapies chapter. Tables on herbal interactions and many complementary treatments for common childhood conditions are featured.
  • Color inserts feature 31 full-color photographs illustrating ear, skin, and other conditions and symptoms.
  • The Pediatric Medication appendix includes the latest drugs used in pediatric primary care with specific dosing for infant, children, adolescents, and adults when applicable.
  • Other appendices present growth charts, laboratory values and the latest asthma management guidelines.


  • Updated content includes in-depth discussion of childhood obesity and mental health problems.
  • Additional information on urgent care of children is included in the disease management sections.
  • Discussion Forum questions are included with each management chapter.
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Managing Patient Expectations: The Art of Finding and Keeping Loyal Patients
Strategies for Building Satisfying Patient Relationships

New England Healthcare Assembly

This book fills a huge void in the areas of medical education and the delivery of patient service. The clear advice about how to identify and respond to patient needs and preferences is essential reading for physicians and those who work with them. If the personal rewards of medicine are important to you, read this book.

--Joseph A. Lieberman, III, chairman, department of family and community medicine, clinical professor of family medicine, Thomas Jefferson University

This important resource describes how to develop the qualities of understanding, empathy, and compassion that help to meet and exceed patient expectations. Managing Patient Expectations is filled with realistic and cost-effective strategies for maintaining patient satisfaction, creating loyalty, and increasing referrals. Susan Keane Baker explains how to find out what patients really think and how physicians can best respond in a variety of situations. Co-published with the Healthcare Assembly Press.

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Price: $11.44 [Notify me when price goes down.]



Ambulatory Care Procedures for the Nurse Practitioner
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City. Presents a comprehensive collection of procedures commonly performed by nurse practitioners in the ambulatory care setting. Organized by body systems, each section begins with diagnostic procedures and features an overview outlining causes, incidence, and more. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover. DNLM: Ambulatory Care--methods..
Price: $48.39 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Principles of Ambulatory Medicine
Updated for its Seventh Edition, Principles of Ambulatory Medicine is the definitive reference for all clinicians caring for adult ambulatory patients. It provides in-depth coverage of the evaluation, management, and long-term course of all clinical problems addressed in the outpatient setting. A major focus is on preventive care, grounded in excellent patient-physician communication. This edition features increased coverage of preventive care, particularly the impact of genetic testing as a disease predictor. For easy reference, the book is organized by body system and each chapter begins with an outline of key topics. References to randomized controlled clinical trials, meta-analyses, and consensus-based recommendations are boldfaced.
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Price: $74.81 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Urgent Care Medicine

* More than 15,000 Urgent Care Centers handle on-demand patient care for minor emergency medical needs
* The first book on the market devoted to the needs of clinicians working at Urgent Care Centers
* Covers staffing, patient profiles, interfacility transport, and common procedures
* Highlights Physical Exam, Errors to Avoid, and Key Points of Documentation.
Price: $61.94 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient
Completely updated for its Fifth Edition, this comprehensive text presents a practical approach to the office evaluation and management of every problem seen by primary care practitioners. In 239 problem-oriented chapters, the book provides essential information on medical diagnosis, lab tests, treatment options, and health maintenance and offers authoritative guidance on clinical decision-making. Every chapter of this edition ends with practical, bulleted Recommendations based on the best evidence, expert consensus guidelines, and clinical judgement. Annotated bibliographies in each chapter highlight the best available studies and analyses. This edition includes more Internet references and more evidence-based references that indicate evidence grades.
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Price: $107.62 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Glass' Office Gynecology
Completely updated and reformatted for greater practicality, Glass' Office Gynecology, Sixth Edition guides practitioners through the full range of clinical problems in the ambulatory care of women. It offers tips for examination, laboratory testing, diagnostic procedures, treatment, counseling, and follow-up and addresses specific concerns in the care of pediatric, adolescent, perimenopausal, and postmenopausal patients. This edition has new chapters on surgical and medical abortion, lifestyle modification counseling, primary management of common psychiatric disorders, and complementary and alternative medicine. Treatment algorithms have been added to every chapter. Where appropriate, end-of-chapter appendices provide forms for office use, phone numbers, and procedure instructions.
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Price: $39.59 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Procedures for the Primary Care Practitioner
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Practical reference provides step-by-step instructions for the performance of 77 basic and advanced procedures. Includes images of each technique and underlying anatomy, and a bulleted-outline format. Previous edition: c1996. Wire-spiral binding. DNLM: Primary Nursing Care--methods--Nurses' Instruction. .
Price: $48.13 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Outside the Hospital: The Delivery of Health Care in Non-hospital Settings
While the hospital is the centerpiece of the health care system, so much health care is delivered outside this setting. Following on the heels of Don Griffin s previous book: Hospitals: What They Are and How They Work, this new book takes an in-depth look at the complex world of the health care systems that lie outside the hospital. From the physician s office, to long term care facilities, to hospice, the reader will gain a clear understanding of the myriad health care systems and their inner workings..
Price: $39.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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