Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2007

Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2007 offers a fast, effective way to access important diagnostic and therapeutic information on nearly 200 conditions. Its "5 books in 1" format offers key information on diseases and disorders * differential diagnosis * clinical algorithms * laboratory evaluations * and clinical preventive services. This package also includes access to a web site where you'll find all of the content from the book, with links to the latest drug information in Mosby's Drug...
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Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2007 offers a fast, effective way to access important diagnostic and therapeutic information on nearly 200 conditions. Its "5 books in 1" format offers key information on diseases and disorders * differential diagnosis * clinical algorithms * laboratory evaluations * and clinical preventive services. This package also includes access to a web site where you'll find all of the content from the book, with links to the latest drug information in Mosby's Drug Consult * Patient education * and handheld software featuring the content from sections I, II, and IV and point-of-care information from other sections in the text. The result is a convenient, portable source for must-have guidance essential to everyday general practice.

• Provides key preventative information adapted from the US Preventative Health Task Force.
• Features billing codes, including ICD-9-CM codes to expedite insurance claims and reimbursements.

FEATURES of FirstConsult:

• Designed for use at the time and point of care, can be used on desktop and laptop computers.
• Tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical conditions, patient education and procedure skills.
• Medical Conditions database presents consistently organized, regularly updated information on patient evaluation, diagnosis and treatment, tests, prevention and much more: each Medical Condition File is organized into 7 sections (Summary, Background, Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes, Prevention, Resources) and then into 55 topic headings, thereby providing access to over 20,000 disease-specific topics in total.

• Includes complete, bulleted information on every aspect of 696 diseases and disorders - 22 new in this edition.
• Provides differential diagnoses for over 468 signs and symptoms - 66 new in this edition.
• Presents all of the information you need to interpret 214 laboratory tests.
• Includes at-a-glance algorithms for 249 conditions - 20 new to this edition.
• Offers access to the complete text online, with links to the latest drug information as well as patient teaching guides in English and Spanish - 20 new to this edition.
• Provides handheld software featuring the content from sections I, II, and IV and point-of-care information from other sections in the text.
• Presents graded evidence-based medical information throughout - the only reference of its kind!
• Features the work of two new section editors, Steven M. Opal, MD, and Jeffrey M. Borkan, MD, PhD.