By William Feldman
Designed for busy clinicians supplying basic wellbeing and fitness care to teenagers, this can be the 1st booklet dedicated to, evidence-based pediatric analysis and therapy. Prevention, prognosis, remedy, and rehabilitation are all coated intensive. The emphasis is on these difficulties, in general visible in perform. The authors disguise evidence-based fabric on every little thing from well-child care and administration of higher respiration infections to seizures and critical bronchial asthma. In every one bankruptcy the reader will locate strong facts to help a selected scientific plan of action, with references to pertinent medical trials. A serious appraisal of the literature is featured.
Key Features:
* contains well-baby and well-child care
* provides universal difficulties in addition to infrequent, existence threatening situations
* Covers prevention, prognosis, treatment and rehabilitation from delivery to age 18
* offers facts essential to aid medical choice making
* followed via a CD-ROM with the total textual content and illustrations of the booklet, in absolutely searchable PDF files
Audience: Pediatricians, relations Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners
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43,44 Interestingly, familiarity with the patient through previous contact did not improve the intelligence quotient (IQ) estimate. These values were underestimated in chronically-ill children and overestimated in mental retardation. The problem of imprecise clinical diagnosis of scholastic problems seems to be a universal one. In the United Kingdom, where clinical impression is the widely used method of identification, only 45 to 55 percent of children with developmental problems have been identified before school entrance.
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