The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis, 1st Edition

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1.A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical Examination
UPDATE: Primer on Precision and Accuracy
2.Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
3.Does This Patient Have Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension?
UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits
4.Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem?
UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking
5.Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis?
UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult
6.Does This Patient Have Ascites?
UPDATE: Ascites
7.What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About LowBack Pain?
UPDATE: Low Back Pain
8.Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer?
UPDATE: Breast Cancer
9.Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit?
UPDATE: Carotid Bruit
10.Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel
11.Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure?
UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure
12.Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis?
UPDATE: Cholecystitis
13.Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation?
UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
14.Does This Patient Have Clubbing?
UPDATE: Clubbing
15.Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed?
UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence
16(A).Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults?
16(B). Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure?
UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure
17.Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
UPDATE: Death
18(A).Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (1998)
18(B). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (2006)
UPDATE: Deep Vein Thrombosis
19.Is This Patient Clinically Depressed?
UPDATE: Depression
20.Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer?
UPDATE: Family History of Cancer
21.Does This Patient Have a Goiter?
UPDATE: Goiter
22.Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly?
UPDATE: HepatomegalyUPDATE: Hypertension
24.Is This Adult Patient Hypovolemic?
UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Adult
25.Is This Child Dehydrated?
UPDATE: Hypopvolemia, Child
26.Does This Patient Have Influenza?
UPDATE: Influenza
27.Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee?
UPDATE: Knee Ligaments and Menisci
28.Is This Adult Patient Malnourished?
UPDATE: Malnourishment, Adult
29.Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma?
UPDATE: Melanoma
30.Does This Adult Patient Have Acute Meningitis?
UPDATE: Meningitis, Adult
31.Is This Woman Perimenopoausal?
UPDATE: Menopause
32.Does This Patient Have Aortic Regurgitation?
UPDATE: Murmur, Diastolic
33.Does This Patient Have an Abnormal Systolic Murmur?
UPDATE: Murmur, Systolic
34.Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis?
UPDATE: Myasthenia Gravis
35.Is This Patient Having a Myocardial Infarction?
UPDATE: Myocardial Infarction
36.Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis?
UPDATE: Osteoporosis
37.Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media?
UPDATE: Otitis Media, Child
38.Does This Patient Have Parkinson Disease?
UPDATE: Parkinsonism
39.Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin?
UPDATE: Penicillin Allergy
40.Does This Adult Patient Have Community-Acquired Pneumonia?
UPDATE: Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adult
41.Does This Infant Have Pneumonia?
UPDATE: Pneumonia, Infant and Child
42.Is This Patient Pregnant?
UPDATE: Early Pregnancy
43.Does This Patient Have Pulmonary