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Instructions for Patients

Instructions for Patients


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This patient teaching tool improves compliance, speeds recovery and increases understanding. Hundreds of fact sheets on topics from abdominal pain to zinc deficiency helps patients understand what their illness is, what impact it will have on their regular routine, and when to call the doctor. Readers can simply tear out the appropriate pages, photocopy, and give them to patients when discussing follow-up care. Features: * CD-ROM now included in the back of the book allows personalisation. * Extra space on each sheet enables readers to tailor instructions to patients' special needs. * NEW TOPICS - 21 NEW TOPICS HAVE BEEN ADDED INCLUDING Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Domestic Violence, Dysthmia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Substance Abuse and Addition ...and more, giving readers easy access to care instructions for more than 600 complaints. * UPDATED AND REVISED DIET SECTION - includes the latest food pyramid guidelines, daily values nutrition data, and changes in specific diet regimens - so readers can help patients maintain their well-being, improve their health, or prevent complications from an illness. * All existing guidelines have been update to include new methods and new medications.

Table of Contents:
Abdominal exercises; breast self-examination; care of casts; condom usage to prevent STD's; exercise and fitness benefits; fever, how to reduce; hip joint muscle exercises; immunizations, childhood; Kegel exercises; living longer and healthier; low back care; prenatal exercising; psychosomatic illness; quadriceps muscle exercise; RICE therapy; safe use of medicine; sexually transmitted disease; shoulder muscle exercises; skin self-examination; soaks; stress, how to cope; testicular self-examination; travel and health; illustration of - eye; ear, nose and throat; sinus cavity; trachea and larynx; larynx and thyroid gland; bronchial tree and lungs; heart, showing coronary arteries; heart, schematic cross-section; gastrointestinal tract; stomach, liver, gallbladder and duodenum; urinary tract; endocrine system; male and female; female genital organs; skeletal system; showing major bones and joints; fractures.

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Reviews of last edition: "The book is well organized for effective use...The breadth of family medicine is included...Having gone through five editions since 1968, this book has achieved revered status in many practices." -Archives of Family Medicine "Instructions for Patients" is a comprehensive teaching tool that encompasses a multitude of disease processes and would be an asset to physicians or nurses involved in patient education." -ANNA Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780721673752
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Publisher Imprint: W B Saunders Co Ltd
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1479 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0721673759
  • Publisher Date: 09 Sep 1998
  • Binding: SA
  • Height: 279 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 216 mm


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