Family Practice Guidelines (9780826197825)

This is a comprehensive family practise resource for primary care clinicians, providing current national practise guidelines for a high quality standard of care for patients across the lifespan in outpatient settings. It includes individual care guidelines for adult, child, pregnant and geriatric patients, health promotion and dietary information, procedure guidelines, national resources and comprehensive patient teaching guides. This third edition includes seven new protocols, ICD-9 Codes for billing, revised patient teaching sheets, a new chapter on pain management guidelines for patients with opioid addiction, completely updated national treatment guidelines and patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formats.

The guide includes 268 disorder guidelines organised by body system, presented in outline format for easy access. Each disorder includes definition, ICD-9 Code, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, plan of care including medications and follow-up care. Of special note are highlighted "Practice Pointers" containing critical information and "Individual Considerations" at the end of each disorder that provide specialty care points for pediatric, pregnant and geriatric populations. This resource also presents 18 procedure guidelines as well as routine health maintenance guidelines and Appendices covering special diets, normal lab values, and dental issues.

New to the Third Edition:

Seven new protocols including atrial fibulation, colorectal cancer screening guidelines, erectile dysfunction, obstructive sleep apnea, opioid addiction, peripheral vascular disease and West Nile virus:

ICD-9 codes for billing
138 completely updated patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formats
Updated national treatment guidelines throughout
New chapter on Pain Management Guidelines regarding prescriptions for opioid addicted patients

Product details

• Format Paperback | 1040 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 38.1mm | 2,109.2g
• Publication date 30 Mar 2014
• Publisher Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition Statement 3rd Revised edition
• ISBN10 0826197825
• ISBN13 9780826197825
• Bestsellers rank 1,806,728

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