Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics - Softcover

Kane, Robert L.; Etc.; Ouslander, Joseph G.; Abrass, Itamar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070344582 ISBN 13: 9780070344587

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1999

Synopsis

"Strongly recommend." - The Journal of Family Practice."This handy-to-carry-and-use paperback is invaluable as a ready source of comprehensive up-to-date geriatric clinical information...richly supplemented by an enormous number of helpful tables, figures, and references." - American Family Physician.

About this title

Review:

"Every medical library should own this excellent book."4 Stars"

From the Publisher:

1.A concise source of practical information on a broad and complex topic, so readers get essential clinical facts without wading through a comprehensive textbook

2.Emphasis on clinical evaluation of common presenting symptoms and signs, allowing clinicians to work through very complex conditions efficiently and accurately.

3.Heavy use of tables and lists, so readers in an immediate patient care situation can make clinical decisions quickly.

4.Authored by heavyweights in geriatric medicine and geriatric health services, so readers know they are getting accurate, timely, authoritative guidance.

5.Addresses principles as well as clinical management, allowing reader to use the book as a text and as a reference.

6.Excellent appendix provides a compendium of checklists for essential procedures in geriatric assessment.

New to this edition: Post-chapter questions, in ABIM format, will be added to each chapter, allowing the book to be used for board preparation in general medicine and family practice and as a self-test feature for nurse and PA markets.

New to this edition: The material on end-of-life decisions will be considerably expanded in reaction to reviewer comments

New to this edition: Pre-operative evaluation of the elderly patient will be added to the assessment chapter

New to this edition: Material on preventive aspects of geriatric healthcare will be expanded in accordance with recent developments in geriatric health services research and in reflection of reviewers' input.

New to this edition: Addition of cancer management issues in the elderly patient, in reflection of reviewers' input

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0070344582
• ISBN 13: 9780070344587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 544