Ferri's Best Test -- A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging

Fred F. Ferri

ISBN 10: 032302453X / ISBN 13: 9780323024532

Published by Mosby, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ferri's Best Test -- A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging
• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 032302453X
• ISBN 13: 9780323024532
• Binding: spiral_bound
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Best Test is a unique new portable manual for medical students, residents and house officers, and any health professional that needs assistance in ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests. This book is unique in that it covers both diagnostic imaging and laboratory tests. It is also unique in being authored by Fred Ferri, who has a demonstrated knack for honing in on the most essential information required by the market.

• Describes the most common imaging studies for each organ system, reviewing their indications · advantages · disadvantages · and approximate costs.
• Examines over 200 laboratory tests, describing the normal range of results in adult patients · typical abnormalities (positive tests, increased or decreased values) · and the likeliest causes
• Explores 222 common diseases and disorders, providing algorithms to help readers select the single best test for diagnosing each condition.
• Uses a concise, well-organized format to make reference remarkably easy.
• Available both as a pocket-sized, soft-cover book, and as software for most handheld devices.

About the Author

Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean’s teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.