Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has launched Pocket Primary Care, a pocket-sized guidebook designed specifically for healthcare providers in outpatient settings. Developed by a team of expert physicians at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, this soon-to-be-indispensible reference continues the hospital's rich tradition of developing point-of-care guidebooks that bring the most current, evidence-based practices to the bedside.
Pocket Primary Care was modeled after the best-selling hospital-based pocket reference, Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine by Dr. Marc S. Sabatine. To develop the guide, expert opinions were solicited from world-renowned specialists and primary care physicians associated with the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The authors asked each specialist what they wanted primary care providers to know about their particular area of expertise - boiled down into one page or less.
This first edition covers details such as what to prescribe, dosages and other practical advice and guides primary care providers on when to refer a patient.
Medical students, residents and other trainees will benefit from Pocket Primary Care's thousands of references, which were carefully selected to represent the latest in evidence-based outpatient medicine. The guide also includes direct links to hundreds of patient-information handouts from leading medical journals.
Pocket Primary Care helps the busy clinician quickly find information they need at the bedside using tabs and a sturdy, six-ring binder. The book covers many of the most common issues seen in outpatient practice, including preventive medicine, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, GI, hematology, infectious disease, musculoskeletal complaints, neurology, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, pulmonary, nephrology, women's health, men's health and geriatrics.
Readers also have the option to purchase Pocket Primary Care as in an eBook powered by Inkling™, which includes a multitude of interactive multimedia features. This digital version offers customised navigation and a powerful, index-based search capability to provide quick results using iPad tablets and iPhones, Android devices, or through a computer browser. Features include rapid index-based search options that link to a newly created index, bookmarking, cross-linking of relevant content, and the ability to cut-and-paste.
