Guide to Diagnostic Tests

Preview, Buy, or Sign In using this app FREE PREVIEW - View select topics to review evidence-based recommendations for ordering and interpreting laboratory, diagnostic, and imaging tests. ABOUT GUIDE TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Guide to Diagnostic Tests, provides immediate, evidence-based information on the selection and interpretation of commonly used laboratory and electrocardiographic tests, diagnostic imaging, and therapeutic monitoring. Including more than 450 updated diagnostic tests, this mobile resource is ideal for answering questions encountered daily by physicians, nurses, students, and other healthcare professionals, such as: • Which test is best to diagnose or follow a patient’s condition? • What is the correct interpretation of an abnormal diagnostic test? • How do I collect the appropriate specimen or prepare the patient for testing? • Where can I find more information on this test in the medical literature? FEATURES • 450+ updated laboratory and diagnostic tests • Evidence-based recommendations • Expanded coverage of genetic and molecular tests, including pharmacogenetic tests • Extensive use of algorithms, tables, and charts • PubMed (PMID) links directly to journal citations and available articles • Universal Index Search – find topics across all indexes • ‘Favorites’ for bookmarking important entries Editors: Diana Nicoll, MD, PhD, MPA; Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD; Michael Pignone, MD, MPH; Stephen J. McPhee, MD Publisher: McGraw Hill Powered by: Unbound Medicine