How to Start an Independent Practice: The Nurse Practitioner's Guide to Success Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this book as a New Entrepreneur Nurse Practitioner to be extremely informative, well written in a step by step approach and easy to read.

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Teach your students how to do it. This practical, user-friendly, easy-to-read resource manual takes the mystery out of setting up a practice -- from planning through start up, to daily operation. It contains an array of practical topics and basic how to's, and includes forms for completing a self-assessment of personal skills, strengths and weaknesses, and understanding the basics of research. "Excellent book! Fills a niche for the entrepreneurs in our profession." -- D.J. Plonczyski, APN, PhD, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

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Medical Pharmacology at a Glance Review

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(More customer reviews)I was recommended this book by a former student of Dr. Neal's and after one perusal, I was hooked. It has since become my favorite medical textbook. It is so elegant and enjoyable to read that it is hardly like studying at all. The diagrams are particularly impressive, with each consolidating the equivalent of many wordy pages in the average pharmacology textbook. It is perfect when taking a medical pharmacology course, to be read "first and last" for each topic. If you're a visual learner, this one's for you.

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Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine: From Symptom to Diagnosis Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is unique in:
1. the extent to which it deals with symptoms and signs
2. the color pictures
3. clinical relevance of the material
4. to serve as the most comprehensive reference for medical students
I highly recommend it.

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An invaluable guide to diagnosing the full range of problems in internal medicine

From Symptom to Diagnosis
Siegenthaler's "Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine" provides a practice-oriented approach to mastering the diagnostic challenges encountered in internal medicine. Organized according to symptoms, the book enables the reader to learn by tracing the path from presenting signs to diagnosis. Different chapters address common classes of symptoms including fever, pain, hematologic symptoms, pulmonary and cardiac symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, nephrologic symptoms, and neurologic symptoms. Each chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the methodology and diagnostic tools and tests along with the essential pathophysiologic background information that will guide the reader toward a definitive diagnosis.

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- Organized by functional system and symptom constellations
- Coverage of all subspecialties in internal medicine, with special consideration of related subjects, such as dermatology, neurology, and rheumatology
- Discussion of typical findings and signs for differentiation of all common, rare, and "exotic" diseases with pathophysiologic background information
- More than 780 stunning figures demonstrating key concepts
- Instructive tables and differential diagnostic algorithms summarizing symptoms and diagnostic pathways
- Guidance for the differential diagnostic evaluation of common laboratory test results, including step-by-step plans for further diagnosis

With its unique symptom-to-diagnosis approach, "Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine" is ideal for medical students, residents, and practitioners requiring an authoritative reference in the clinical setting.

Walter Siegenthaler, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

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Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics) Review

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(More customer reviews)This second edition of Shortliffe's textbook is an excellent overview of the field. Although I used it as a course text, it is extremely readable. The chapters are not overly technical, as befits an introductory text, but by no means is this a "Dummmies" book either.
There are now a variety of introductory/overview books on medical informatics. However, of the ones I've read (including van Bemmel's Handbook of Medical Informatics and Coiera's Guide to Medical Informatics), this book is by far the best.

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Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2011: 5 Books in 1, Expert Consult - Online and Print (Ferri's Medical Solutions) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellant resource for Practitioners! I use it often due to its ease of use. I would highly reccommend purchasing it as it is up date and uses EBP. Its worth every penny.

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Statistical Methods in Medical Research (Armitage, Statistical Methods in Medical Research) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is definitely one of the most comprehensive of all biostatistics textbooks out there and it is also the best. Authoritative in style, it starts from the very basics and surveys in *detail* almost every method in biostatistics.
You will be impressed: Apart from *all* the basic techniques usually found in most biostatistics texbooks, it has two extensive chapters on Bayesian methods (with Gibbs sampling, MCMC, etc., you name it), extensive treatments of clinical trials, extensive treatments of longitudinal data and GEE models, extensive details on the bootstrap and jackknife, an extensive chapter on methods in epidemiology (risk ratios, Mantel-Haenszel method), extensive treatments of categorical data (contingency tables, logistic regression), and an extensive chapter on survival analysis. This is indeed a very extensive book.
"Statistical Methods in Medical Research" is also a book on methodology, so theorems and proofs are not to be expected. Also there are no exercises, but there are excellent illustrative examples of the various methods. While it is very descriptive, it contains enough mathematics to keep the presentation of concepts *complete*. It is also very up-to-date and has an excellent reference list.
In a nutshell, this is a work of great ambition and vision: it will cater for beginners and masters alike.


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The explanation and implementation of statistical methods for the medical researcher or statistician remains an integral part of modern medical research. This book explains the use of experimental and analytical biostatistics systems. Its accessible style allows it to be used by the non-mathematician as a fundamental component of successful research.
Since the third edition, there have been many developments in statistical techniques. The fourth edition provides the medical statistician with an accessible guide to these techniques and to reflect the extent of their usage in medical research.
The new edition takes a much more comprehensive approach to its subject. There has been a radical reorganization of the text to improve the continuity and cohesion of the presentation and to extend the scope by covering many new ideas now being introduced into the analysis of medical research data. The authors have tried to maintain the modest level of mathematical exposition that characterized the earlier editions, essentially confining the mathematics to the statement of algebraic formulae rather than pursuing mathematical proofs.
Received the Highly Commended Certificate in the Public Health Category of the 2002 BMA Books Competition.

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