Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests

Diana Nicoll, MD, PhD, MPA: Clinical Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Associate Dean, University of California, San Francisco; Chief of Staff and Chief, Laboratory Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco.
Michael Pignone, MD, MPH: Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Professor of MedicineAssociate Dean of StudentsSchool of MedicineUniversity of California, San Francisco

A quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of more than 450 commonly used diagnostic tests

COVERS:

Basic principles of diagnostic testing, common blood, urine and cerebrospinal fluid laboratory tests, therapeutic drug monitoring, microbiologic test selection and interpretation and diagnostic imaging tests by body system , electrocardiography, and differential diagnosis tables & algorithms
Tests used in internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, neurology and obstetrics and gynecology
INCLUDES:

Costs and risks of diagnostic tests
Evidence-based information
Diseases associated with abnormal test results, including test sensitivities
Full literature citations with PubMed (PMID) numbers included foreach reference
More than 24 NEW clinical laboratory test entries, 6 NEW differential diagnosis tables
5 NEW diagnostic algorithms
NEW sections on point-of-care testing, provider-performed microscopy, pharmacogenetic testing, and diagnostic echocardiography

1. Diagnostic Testing and Medical Decision Making
2. Poiont-of-Care Testingand Provider-Performed Microscopy
3. Common Laboratory Tests: Selection and Interpretation
4. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Pharmacogenetic Testing
5. Microbiology: Test Selection
6. Diagnostic Imaging: Test Selection and Interpretation
7. Basic Electrocatdiography and Echocardiography
8. diagnostis Tests in Differential Diagnosis
9. diagnostic Algorithms
10. Nomograms and Reference Material