Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2014 5 Books in 1, Expert Consult – Online and Print

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2014 5 Books in 1, Expert Consult – Online and Print

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor is the fastest, most effective way to access current diagnostic and therapeutic information on more than 700 common medical conditions. Dr. Fred Ferri’s popular “5 books in 1″ format provides quick guidance on menorrhagia, Failure to Thrive (FTT), Cogan’s syndrome, and much more. Now featuring expanded online components, it makes the answers you need for your family practice even easier to find – anytime, anywhere.

New to This Edition

• Identify and treat a broader range of disorders, including renal and epidural abscess and cardio-renal syndrome, with 23 new topics in the Diseases & Disorders section.
• Improve your interpretation of presenting symptoms with 39 new topics in the Differential Diagnosis section, and optimize patient care with 12 new tables in the Clinical Practice Guidelines section.
• Rapidly find the answers you need with separate sections on diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory results, and clinical preventive services, plus an at-a-glance format that uses cross-references, outlines, bullets, tables, boxes, and algorithms to expedite reference.
• Get the insurance billing codes you require for your family healthcare practice with ICD-9-CM codes, to expedite insurance reimbursements.
• Access full-color images and 65 online-only topics at Expert Consult, as well as online-only contents including EBMs, Suggested Reading, Patient Teaching Guides, and additional algorithms.

Key Features

• Rapidly find the answers you need with separate sections on diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory results, and clinical preventive services, plus an at-a-glance format that uses cross-references, outlines, bullets, tables, boxes, and algorithms to expedite reference.
• Review normal values and interpret results for more than 200 lab tests.
• Get the insurance billing codes you require, including ICD-9-CM codes, to expedite insurance reimbursements.
• Improve your family healthcare practice’s efficiency with cost-effective referral and consultation guidelines.

This book is intended to be a clear and concise reference for physicians and allied health professionals. Its user-friendly format was designed to provide a fast and efficient way to identify important clinical information and to offer practical guidance in patient management. The book is divided into five sections and an appendix, each with emphasis on clinical information.

The tremendous success of the previous editions and the enthusiastic comments from numerous colleagues have brought about several positive changes. Each section has been significantly expanded from prior editions, bringing the total number of medical topics covered in this book to more than 1000. Nearly 500 new illustrations and tables have been added to this new edition to enhance recollection of clinically important facts. The use of

ICD-9CM codes in all the topics will expedite claims submission and reimbursement.

Section I describes in detail more than 700 medical disorders. Twentyfive

new topics have been added to the 2014 edition. 

Each medical topic in this section is arranged alphabetically, and the material in each

topic is  presented in outline format for ease of retrieval. Topics with an accompanying

algorithm in Section III are identified with an algorithm symbol (ALG). Similarly, if topics also have a Patient Teaching Guide (PTG) available online, this has been noted. Several new PTGs have been added to the 2014 edition. Throughout the text, key quick-access information is consistently highlighted, clinical photographs are used to further illustrate

selected medical conditions, and relevant ICD-9CM codes are listed. Most references focus on current peer-reviewed journal articles rather than outdated textbooks and old review articles. Evidence-based medicine data have been added to relevant topics.

Topics in this section use the following structured approach:

 1. Basic Information (Definition, Synonyms, ICD-9CM Codes, Epidemiology & Demographics, Physical Findings & Clinical Presentation, Etiology)

 2. Diagnosis (Differential Diagnosis, Workup, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies)

 3. Treatment (Nonpharmacologic Therapy, Acute General Rx, Chronic Rx, Disposition, Referral)

 4. Pearls & Considerations (Comments, Suggested Readings)

 5. Evidence-Based Data and References Section II includes the differential diagnosis, etiology, and classification of signs and symptoms. This section has been significantly expanded for the 2014 edition with the addition of 41 new topics. It is a practical section 

that allows the user investigating a physical complaint or abnormal laboratory value to

follow a “workup” leading to a diagnosis. 

The physician can then easily look up the presumptive diagnosis in Section I for the information specific to that illness.

Section III includes clinical algorithms to guide and expedite the patient’s workup and

therapy. 

Twenty-five new algorithms have been added for the 2014 edition. 

Many physicians describe this section as particularly valuable in today’s managed-care

environment.

Section IV includes normal laboratory values and interpretation of results of commonly ordered laboratory tests. By providing interpretation of abnormal results, this section

facilitates the diagnosis of medical  disorders and further adds to the comprehensive, “one-stop” nature of our text.

Section V focuses on preventive medicine. Information in this section includes recommendations for the periodic health examination, screening for major diseases and disorders, patient counseling, and immunization and chemoprophylaxis recommendations.

The Appendix has been divided into five major sections. Section I contains

extensive information on complementary and alternative medicine

(CAM). With the material in this appendix, we hope to lessen the current

scarcity of exposure of allopathic and osteopathic physicians to the diversity

of CAM therapies. Section II focuses on nutrition with emphasis on dietary supplements, vitamins, and minerals. Section III deals with diagnosis and treatment of acute poisoning.

Section IV, available online, contains an extensive section on primary care procedures.

Section V contains several patient teaching guides not linked to Section I topics.

As clinicians, we all realize the importance of patient education and the need for clear communication with our patients. Toward that end, practical patient instruction sheets, organized alphabetically and covering the majority of the topics in this book, are available

online and can be easily customized and printed from any computer.

All of them have been updated, and several new ones have been added to the 2014 edition.

They represent a valuable addition to patient care and are useful for improving physician-patient communication, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.

I believe that we have produced a state-of-the-art information system with significant differences from existing texts. It contains five sections and patient education guides that could be sold separately based on their content, yet are available under a single cover, offering the reader a tremendous value.

I hope that the Clinical Advisor’s user-friendly approach, numerous unique features, and yearly updates will make this book a valuable medical reference, not only to primary care physicians but also to physicians in other specialties, medical students, and allied health professionals.

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