Elsevier Science</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p>Take the next step in health assessment!<b> Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 5th Edition</b> goes beyond basic history and physical examination to help you master the diagnostic reasoning process. Youll develop this key skill by following assessment guidelines that focus on a specific complaint rather than beginning with a previously established diagnosis or disease entity. Written by advanced practice nursing experts Joyce Dains Linda Baumann and Pamela Scheibel this edition includes new chapters on evidence-based preventive health screening and on heartburn and indigestion along with a new full-color design. Master the differential diagnosis process outlined in this book and youll be able to accurately diagnose the majority of patients seen in todays primary care settings.</p><ul><b><li>A clear consistent diagnostic reasoning process</b> takes you to the next step of health assessment  beyond basic history and physical examination to diagnostic reasoning.</li><li><b><i>Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused History</i> sections</b> use ??self-questions?? to walk you through the thinking process involved in obtaining a pertinent?? relevant?? problem-specific history that will assist in differential diagnosis.</li><li><b><i>Diagnostic Reasoning: Focused Physical Examination</i> sections</b> explain how to perform more advanced diagnostic techniques and interpret the findings.</li><li><b><i>Key Questions</b></i> guide you through assessment and toward an accurate diagnosis by listing questions to ask the patient?? followed by expla