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Practical Strategies and Pediatric Diagnosis and Therapy

edited by Robert M. Kliegman, Michael L. Nieder, Dennis M. Super, 1100 pp, ISBN 0-7216-5161-5, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Sanders Co, 1996.

Mark Mengel, MD, Reviewer
Family Practice Center Hunt Center Danvers, Mass

Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(6):587.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Weighing in at approximately 1100 pages, I was initially less then excited about reviewing another pediatric tome in which the information was organized in ways that made it virtually inaccessible to primary care physicians. On opening to the "Table of Contents," however, I was pleasantly surprised that the chapters were organized by problem, not disease, and were well tabulated and well illustrated. Fifty-eight of the most common pediatric problems that a family physician might encounter are reviewed, ranging from earache to development.

I became even more excited as I saw how each chapter was organized. Each chapter began with a diagnostic approach to the particular problem being reviewed, emphasizing how history, physical examination, and laboratory tests can lead one to the appropriate diagnosis. Useful algorithms were listed in most chapters, reviewing the diagnostic approach, and a differential diagnosis section reviewed each disease, describing appropriate treatments. References were complete and up-to-date. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]






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