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Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: A Synopsis of Laboratory Medicine
5th ed, by Jacques Wallach, 933 pp, $31.50, ISBN 0-316-92050-9, Boston, Mass, Little, Brown & Co Inc, 1991.
James J. Bergman, MD, Reviewer
University of Washington Seattle, Wash
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(5):568-569.
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"This book was written to improve laboratory utilization by making it simpler for the physician to select and interpret the most useful laboratory tests for his clinical problems," notes Wallach in the introduction. After having office-based experience with Wallach's perennially popular manual, I conclude that he is again quite successful in the stated endeavor. While the author's efforts and, thus, the size of the manual, have expanded in the years since the first edition, the manual remains compact and readily accessible for clinical use. Four major sections are presented: normal laboratory reference values and critical values, the differential diagnostic considerations in cases of results of abnormal examinations, the use of the laboratory in the evaluation of 13 organ systems and their respective pathologic conditions, and medications and their influence on laboratory test values. The last section discusses therapeutic drug monitoring.
The first section is brief and straightforward, as one might
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