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Outpatient Care Handbook
by Peter A. Glassman, Daniel Garcia, Judith P. Delafield, 300 pp, $31, St Louis, Mo, Mosby—Year Book Inc, 1993.
Nikitas J. Zervanos, MD, Reviewer
Lancaster (Pa) General Hospital Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pa
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(1):22-23.
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The authors chose 63 problems, disorders, or disease states commonly encountered in the outpatient settings of primary care internists and family physicians. The guidelines described in the protocols are from consensus papers developed by the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association and its affiliates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, RAND, and the US Preventive Services Task Force and can be considered authoritative. The authors took license, however, to modify the guidelines based on their personal experience.
Each of the sections provides a definition of the problem, basic general principles, pertinent aspects of history and physical examination findings, results of relevant laboratory and diagnostic studies, management tips, and advice on when to refer to consultants. References are included at the end of each section, as well as an Index of Consensuses. The sections are written in outline form and therefore serve as
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