The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395765366 ISBN 13: 9780395765364

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Synopsis

Describes hundreds of medical tests and procedures, offers advice from the nurses and practitioners who administer the tests, and reviews money-saving home tests

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Diagnostic tests are among the fastest-growing and most costly aspects of modern medicine. To help educate the healthcare consumer, medical experts from the Yale Medical School have compiled this comprehensive guide to medical tests, with some general information related to patient rights and informed consent, screening tests, and an overview of diagnostic tests. The bulk of the book includes hundreds of the most commonly performed diagnostic tests described in clear, understandable terms with easy-to-follow charts. Information about the tests includes alternate names, purpose, how the test works, preparation, test procedure, variations, post-test implications, interpretation, advantages and disadvantages, and the next step or follow-up. This excellent resource is recommended for all consumer healthcare collections, where it will serve as a more readable resource than more specialized guides such as Jacques Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: A Synopsis of Laboratory Medicine (Lippincott-Raven, 1996. 6th ed.)?James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395765366
• ISBN 13: 9780395765364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 620
• Editor: Zaret Barry L., Jatlow Peter M.D., Katz Lee D. M.D.