The new Ferri's Netter Patient Advisor 2010 - 2011, by Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP, enables you to increase patients' understanding and cooperation with ease! Designed with the end user in mind, it features over 550 printable, succinct and highly visual education topics that provide patients with the information they need, in a quick and memorable manner. It combines more than 2,000 Netter and Netter-style illustrations with explanations from renowned author Dr. Fred Ferri to provide an easy understanding of each health condition and what patients can do to facilitate their own care. A companion website featuring annual updates lets you customize and print out patient instructions for all 500 of the topics covered in the book, plus 50 additional topics. It's the perfect instructional resource for helping your patients become informed and active partners in their healthcare management.

• Features over 550 printable education sheets covering a wide spectrum of conditions and health maintenance issues seen in family medicine and primary care.
  
• Includes access to an annually updated website that lets you customize and print handouts for all 500 topics covered in the book plus 50 additional topics.
  
• Presents each topic on 2 pages, written at an easily-understandable reading level, for just the right amount of quick-access, memorable information.
  
• Uses more than 2,000 Netter and Netter-style illustrations to help patients understand illnesses and their care.
  
• Features the work of Dr. Fred F. Ferri-author of many medical texts and references-for dependable and succinct patient guidance.
  
• Provides management information in both English and Spanish for the top 100 topics.

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The 2010 volume of Ferri's Clinical Advisor is simply the fastest, most effective way to access current diagnostic and therapeutic information on over 700 conditions. Its popular "5 books in 1" format provides quick reference to actionable guidance on diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory evaluations, and clinical preventive services. Consult the user-friendly text or effortlessly search the thoroughly updated 2010 volume online, where you'll also have unlimited access to downloadable illustrations, revised patient teaching guides in English and Spanish, links to PubMed, and so much more.

• Presents cross-references, outlines, bulleted text, tables, boxes, and algorithms for rapid access to key information.
  
• Provides cost-effective referral and consultation guidelines.
  
• Includes more than 200 lab tests covering normal values and interpretation of results.
  
• Incorporates the most common childhood diseases into the Diseases and Disorders section.
  
• Provides billing codes, including ICD-9-CM codes, to expedite insurance claims and reimbursements.
  
• Features website addresses for additional resources and support.

• Includes step-by-step, how-to information on 60 procedures, including ICD-9 and CPT codes, indications and contraindications, and complications.
  
• Features the thoroughly updated 2010 volume online where you'll have unlimited access to downloadable illustrations, revised patient teaching guides in English and Spanish, links to PubMed, and more, for convenient accessibility to essential information.

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued....

Written by Fred F. Ferri, MD, FACP, author of many best-selling books for primary care practice, Ferri's Best Test, 2nd Edition, equips you to quickly choose the most efficient and cost-effective diagnostic approach, including imaging or lab tests. Updates throughout, including more than 180 new tests...additional diagnostic modalities...and new algorithms...make this unique and user-friendly reference a must for determining which diagnostic tests to order. A portable, pocket-sized format allows for convenient consultation anytime, anywhere.

• Offers concise, well-organized guidance to the most common lab tests and diagnostic imaging modalities, all in one single resource, that makes reference remarkably fast and easy.
  
• Describes the most common imaging studies for each organ system, reviewing their indications, advantages, disadvantages, and approximate costs to simplify your decision-making process.
  
• Examines over 384 laboratory tests, describing the normal range of results in adult patients, typical abnormalities (positive tests, increased or decreased values), and the likeliest causes.
  
• Explores 231 common diseases and disorders, providing algorithms to help you select the single best test for diagnosing each condition.
  
• Features a portable, pocket-sized format that allows for convenient consultation anytime, anywhere.

• Features 184 new tests in an expanded laboratory test section; 8 additional diagnostic radiological modalities, including computed tomographic colonography, video capsule endoscopy, and intravascular ultrasonography; and 30 new algorithms in an expanded algorithm section, to provide you with the latest options for obtaining optimal diagnostic outcomes.
  
• Includes IU units added to all laboratory tests, to make the guidance more useful to clinicians practicing outside of the US.

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If you need a practical, portable resource to get you through your internal medicine clerkship or residency, this book is the answer! It zeroes right in on the differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines you need to diagnose and manage more than 225 disorders, signs, and symptoms...and makes them easy to access quickly! This 7th Edition covers 53 new differential diagnoses and 37 new topics...includes more color dermatology images...and features a more compact format for increased portability and ease of use. It also offers you access to the full text online at www.studentconsult.com.

• Presents the latest clinical information, drug therapies, and lab tests.
  
• Features a convenient spiral binding so the book lays flat for easy reference and at-a-glance searching.

• Keeps you up to date with coverage of 53 new differential diagnoses-over 225 in all-and 37 completely new topics.
• Includes more color dermatology images for improved diagnostic assistance.
  
• Offers a more concise, compact format for greater portability and ease of reference.
  
• Presents a revamped formulary that focuses on the most important IV medications used in the hospital setting.
• Comes with STUDENT CONSULT - allowing you to access the complete contents of the book online at www.studentconsult.com, perform sophisticated searches, and take personal notes · follow "Integration Links" to bonus content from other STUDENT CONSULT titles · and much more.

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