Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care (Current Clinical Practice)

This new volume in the Current Clinical Practice™ series puts the mostimportant evidence-based, nationally recognized clinical guidelinestogether in one place. As a result, busy clinicians can go to onesource when, in the care of a patient, a question arises that is bestanswered by an existing clinical guideline. Among the topics covered in this volume are hyperlipidemia, managementof newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation, antithrombotic therapy forvenous thromboembolic disease and atrial fibrillation, and preventionof bacterial endocarditis. The book details treatment for asthma andinfectious diseases ranging from pneumonia to tuberculosis to diarrhea.The volume also contains chapters on endocrinology, gynecology,neurology, and psychiatry. With the busy clinician in mind, Essential Practice Guidelines inPrimary Care has been constructed from its origin to have a companionPDA resource, with summaries of the guidelines in this book andadditional summaries of guidelines not included in the book. (The PDAversion of Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care is availablefrom the publisher, ISBN 1-934115-47-9.) Together, these complimentarytextbooks, in print and electronic format, should facilitate theimplementation of nationally recognized clinical guidelines.