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Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses
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Title Details
6th Ed.
Copyright © 2026 by F. A. Davis Company
Mary Jo Goolsby, EdD, MSN, ANP, FAANP; Laurie Grubbs, MSN, PhD, APRN-C
ISBN-13: 978-1-7196-5264-3
eISBN-13: 978-1-7196-5665-8
Nursing, Point of Care, Diagnosis, Evidence Based Medicine
Additional Details
Your essential guide to diagnostic reasoning and differential diagnosis.
Designed to go beyond performing a physical exam, this text focuses on the thinking behind clinical decision-making. Step by step, you’ll learn how to analyze assessment data, interpret key findings, and determine which conditions may be indicated—developing a systematic approach to differential diagnosis from initial presentation to clinical judgment. Coverage of 170 conditions and symptoms across the lifespan ensures you always have the diagnostic process at your fingertips.
Key Features
- • Coverage of 170 conditions and symptoms across the life span—including children, older adults, and pregnant patients
- • Complaint-focused approach organized by body system, including discussions of complex conditions
- • Step-by-step how tos for taking a focused history, performing a physical based on presenting complaints/problems, and interpreting the findings
- • Guidance on selecting diagnostic tests and interpreting those studies to help narrow down the diagnoses
- • Prediction rules for selected disorders
- • Quick-reference features, including red flags • assessment pearls • medications causing symptoms • and selected causes of symptoms
New to this Edition
- • Expanded, Revised & Updated! Thoroughly updated to reflect the art and the science of primary care practice as well as the newest evidence and changes in health care
- • New! Case studies with critical-thinking questions at the end of each chapter in Unit 2 (15 cases in all with answers posted online for faculty and students)
- • New! Content on Sports Physicals in Chapter 19: Pediatric Patients
- • New & Expanded! Five new clinical decision-making algorithms
- • New & Expanded! Photographs that reflect the diversity of patients seen in practice
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