Handbook of Signs & Symptoms
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Handbook of Signs & Symptoms
Improve Assessment Accuracy and Patient Safety
- Clinical nursing tool for improving patient safety by increasing assessment accuracy
- Description of each sign and symptom includes guidelines for areas such as history and physical examination, medical causes, and patient counseling
- Charts help differentiate among a sign or symptoms' multiple causes and differences among similar signs and symptoms
- Quick-scan entries from A to Z offer on-the-spot answers users need for more than 500 signs and symptoms
- Appendix with definitions and common causes of 250 less-familiar or nonspecific signs and symptoms
- Covers definitions, patient history, exams, diagnostics, and interventions
