Family Practice Guidelines (3 Revised edition)

This is a comprehensive family practise resource for primary care clinicians, providing current national practise guidelines for a high quality standard of care for patients across the lifespan in outpatient settings.

It includes individual care guidelines for adult, child, pregnant and geriatric patients, health promotion and dietary information, procedure guidelines, national resources and comprehensive patient teaching guides.

This third edition includes seven new protocols, ICD-9 Codes for billing, revised patient teaching sheets, a new chapter on pain management guidelines for patients with opioid addiction, completely updated national treatment guidelines and patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formats. The guide includes 268 disorder guidelines organised by body system, presented in outline format for easy access.

Each disorder includes definition, ICD-9 Code, incidence, pathogenesis, predisposing factors, common complaints, signs/symptoms, subjective data, physical exam and diagnostic tests, differential diagnosis, plan of care including medications and follow-up care.

Of special note are highlighted "Practice Pointers" containing critical information and "Individual Considerations" at the end of each disorder that provide specialty care points for pediatric, pregnant and geriatric populations.

This resource also presents 18 procedure guidelines as well as routine health maintenance guidelines and Appendices covering special diets, normal lab values, and dental issues. New to the Third Edition:Seven new protocols including atrial fibulation, colorectal cancer screening guidelines, erectile dysfunction, obstructive sleep apnea, opioid addiction, peripheral vascular disease and West Nile virus:ICD-9 codes for billing138 completely updated patient teaching sheets in print and PDF formatsUpdated national treatment guidelines throughoutNew chapter on Pain Management Guidelines regarding prescriptions for opioid addicted patients