Medical : Clinical Medicine

What will happen during and after a clinical trial?.; How will a trial affect my quality of life?.; What are the benefits and risks of a trial?.; What does giving consent mean and what will it involve?.; Will I incur costs during and because of the trial?. These are the questions that should be raised every time a health care professional talks through with a patient the pros and cons of entering a clinical trial. Clinical Trials Explained has been designed in consultation with doctors and patients who have taken part in trials, providing an essential and detailed guide to the clinical trials process. It therefore helps both clinicians and patients make well-informed decisions on whether to take part in a clinical trial. more...

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Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 1: PreTest asks the right questions so you will know the right answers! This one of a kind study guides delivers: a format that simulates the actual exam, 450 board-type questions, referenced answers and explanations, and material reviewed by recent, successful USMLE Step 1 test-takers. With this unique test prep guide you will be able to recall key facts; get invaluable practice with 450 timed, high-yield questions; respond within the time restrictions of the actual exam; assess your strengths and weaknesses; review explanations of right and wrong answers; and build confidence, skills, and knowledge. more...

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Focuses on language and communication issues in older people with mental health problems. This book recognizes that language and communication is not just the business of speech and language therapy, but is relevant to staff involved with people who have mental health difficulties. more...

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To help you accelerate your learning curve, Dr. Cohen offers this helpful new atlas with over 900 endoscopic images. Emphasizing conditions for which NBI is particularly useful - such as finding dysplasia in Barrett's mucosa and ulcerative colitis and detecting adenomatous colon polyps - Comprehensive Atlas of High Resolution Endoscopy and Narrowband Imaging gives you an exceptional preview of the future of endoscopy, with a broad new look at normal and abnormal findings throughout the GI tract. The book is divided into three main parts:. * The Basics of NBI. * Potential Applications of NBI. * Atlas of 585 colour images, broken into sections on the pharynx and esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon, including correlating histopathology. The accompanying DVD-ROM includes:. * 55 video clips containing 2 1/2 hours of annotated video to give you a complete sense of how HRE and NBI work and look in real time, including during therapeutic procedures. * The complete text with a full text and image caption search function. * A database of figures from the book. This spectacular new imaging modality promises to enhance endoscopic decision making in real time, facilitate therapeutic maneuvers, and make tissue sampling more precise. As a tool to guide your mastery of this advance and as a reference for you to use with your patients, colleagues and students, this atlas will find regular use on your desktop and have a noticeable impact on your practice. more...

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This book provides essential guidance for clinicians on how to identify various coping styles, and how to improve the quality of discourse with people of different backgrounds and ages. more...

Price: $29.95