Essential Practice Guidelines in Primary Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
CARDIOLOGY
Chapter 1: Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (Epstein)
Chapter 2: Hyperlipidemia (Cohen/Skolnik)
Chapter 3: Management of Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation - A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians (Schneider)
Chapter 4:Antithrombotic Therapy for Venous Thromboembolic Disease (Samraj)
Chapter 5: Antithrombotic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation, Valvular Heart Disease, Management of Elevated INRs and Perioperative Management (Schneider)
Chapter 6: Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis (Schneider)

RESPIRATORY
Chapter 7: Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma (Gagnon/Skolnik)

INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Chapter 8: Community Acquired Pneumonia And Health-Care Associated Pneumonia Clinical Guidelines (Russell)
Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media - Joint Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Family Physicians (Neill)
Chapter 10: Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Treatment of Nonspecific Upper Respiratory Infections, Rhinosinusitis, and Acute Bronchitis in Adults (Degnan/Skolnik)
Chapter 11: Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis - The Infectious Disease Society of America (Napoletano)
Chapter 12: Prevention of Perinatal Group B Streptococcal Disease (Albert/Skolnik/Neill)
Chapter 13: Adult Immunizations (Fissell/Skolnik)
Chapter 14: Rabies Prevention (Skolnik)
Chapter 15: Practice Guidelines For The Management Of Infectious Diarrhea (Fenstemacher)
Chapter 16: Tuberculosis Testing And Treatment Of Latent Infection (Fenstemacher)

ENDOCRINOLOGY
Chapter 17: Screening for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women (Neill)

GYNECOLOGY
Chapter 18: ManagingAbnormal Cervical Cytology And Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia: 2001 Consensus Guidelines (Clouse)

NEUROLOGY
Chapter 19: Dementia

From the reviews:"Audience: Primary care physicians, residents, medical students, as well as faculty members involved in their education and training. ... This book is an excellent summary of the most important evidence-based, nationally recognized, clinical guidelines, with aim to improve the quality of medical care. It represents understandable, useful, easy to implement, one source for questions arises that is best answered by an existing clinical guideline. Together with electronic (PDA) version, should facilitate the implementation of nationally recognized clinical guidelines by primary care physicians." (Mirjana Huic, Croatian Medical Journal, October, 2007)