Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Author: Alfred O. Berg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780756744106

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Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which are now being released. The USPSTF is in the midst of an ongoing & rigorous process of reviewing the evidence of effectiveness of a broad array of clinical preventive services -- screening, counseling, & chemo-prevention -- updating many of its previous recommendations & releasing other recommendations for the first time. This edition compiles for subscribers background information, summaries of the supporting evidence, & recommendations that were first published in American Family PhysicianÓ, American Journal of Preventive MedicineÓ, & Annals of Internal MedicineÓ. Charts & tables.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Author: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2003
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

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Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Author: Alfred O. Berg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780756744090

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Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which are now being released periodically. The USPSTF is in the midst of an ongoing & rigorous process of reviewing the evidence of effectiveness of a broad array of clinical preventive services -- screening, counseling, & chemo-prevention -- updating many of its previous recommendations & releasing other recommendations for the first time. This edition compiles background information, summaries of the supporting evidence, & recommendations that were first published in American Family PhysicianÓ, American Journal of Preventive MedicineÓ, Annals of Internal MedicineÓ. Charts & tables.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice
Author: Steven H. Woolf
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781775991

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Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers clinicians a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on counseling patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression and on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designing a personalized health maintenance plan, facilitating behavior change, and the work-up of abnormal results from screening tests. This new edition includes updated chapters on practice redesign, the use of electronic medical records, and reimbursement; updated patient resource materials and instructions; and new authors with deep expertise on the topics. A companion Website (www.healthpromodisprev.com) features fully searchable text online.