A quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of more than 450 commonly used diagnostic tests. This latest update is based on the 6th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates.
Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, covers basic principles of diagnostic testing, common blood, urine and cerebrospinal fluid laboratory tests, therapeutic drug monitoring, microbiologic test selection and interpretation and diagnostic imaging tests by body system, electrocardiography, and differential diagnosis tables & algorithms.
Key Features
- Tests used in internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, neurology and obstetrics and gynecology
- Costs and risks of diagnostic tests
- Evidence-based information
- Includes diseases associated with abnormal test results, including test sensitivities
- More than 24 new clinical laboratory test entries, 6 new differential diagnosis tables
- 5 new diagnostic algorithms
- Enable readers to understand commonly used diagnostic tests and diagnostic approaches to common disease states
- A new sections on point-of-care testing, provider-performed microscopy, pharmacogenetic testing, and diagnostic echocardiography
- Expanded content regarding molecular and genetic tests
- More than two dozen new clinical laboratory test entries, including: C-reactive protein, high sensitivity (hs-CRP); G20210A mutation; hepatitis C virus genotyping; HIV resistance testing; etc
- Added microbiologic test for emerging and reemerging pathogens and infectious agents