Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine An Evidence-Based Guide to Primary Care

The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine is a unique, evidence-based reference for clinicians working, teaching, and learning in primary care and outpatient settings. For over 40 major topics, the Guide delivers the information most needed by practitioners. Frequently asked questions are incorporated into the text such as: Which statin drug is best at preventing coronary outcomes? What is the advantage of adding a thallium scan to a treadmill test? How many mammograms does it take to save one life in a screening program? What exactly is the effect of weight loss on glucose control? What is the lifetime incidence of cirrhosis in hepatitis C infection? Do any medications really work in obesity? Its tried and tested format comprises easily assimilated recommendations to management of common medical conditions, backed up by the evidence and references presented alongside the relevant text in a unique two column format. For over four years, the Bellevue Guide has been used by more than one hundred primary care clinicians in Bellevue Hospital Center and found to be invaluable as a truly practical evidence based resource for managing outpatients. Now fully revised, and with updated literature searches, it is available as a published book. Combining the experience of doctors working with outpatients in one of the busiest clinics in New York with critically appraised evidence, this is a hands-on book for all health care providers working in primary care settings. It will be kept constantly up to date with its free access website, providing added value to this outstanding guide.Link, Nathan is the author of 'Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine An Evidence-Based Guide to Primary Care' with ISBN 9780727916808 and ISBN 0727916807.