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Contributors | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical Examination | |
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UPDATE: Primer on Precision and Accuracy | |
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Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm? | |
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UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm | |
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Does This Patient Have Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension? | |
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UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits | |
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Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem? | |
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UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking | |
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Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis? | |
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UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult | |
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Does This Patient Have Ascites? | |
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UPDATE: Ascites | |
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What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About LowBack Pain? | |
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UPDATE: Low Back Pain | |
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Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer? | |
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UPDATE: Breast Cancer | |
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Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit? | |
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UPDATE: Carotid Bruit | |
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Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? | |
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UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel | |
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Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure? | |
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UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure | |
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Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis? | |
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UPDATE: Cholecystitis | |
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Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation? | |
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UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease | |
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Does This Patient Have Clubbing? | |
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UPDATE: Clubbing | |
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Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed? | |
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UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence | |
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Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults? | |
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Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure? | |
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UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure | |
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Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest | |
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UPDATE: Death | |
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Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (1998) | |
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Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (2006) | |
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UPDATE: Deep Vein Thrombosis | |
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Is This Patient Clinically Depressed? | |
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UPDATE: Depression | |
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Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer? | |
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UPDATE: Family History of Cancer | |
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Does This Patient Have a Goiter? | |
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UPDATE: Goiter | |
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Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly? | |
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UPDATE: Hepatomegaly | |
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Does This Patient Have Hypertension? | |
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UPDATE: Hypertension | |
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Is This Adult Patient Hypovolemic? | |
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UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Adult | |
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Is This Child Dehydrated? | |
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UPDATE: Hypopvolemia, Child | |
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Does This Patient Have Influenza? | |
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UPDATE: Influenza | |
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Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee? | |
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UPDATE: Knee Ligaments and Menisci | |
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Is This Adult Patient Malnourished? | |
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UPDATE: Malnourishment, Adult | |
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Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma? | |
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UPDATE: Melanoma | |
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Does This Adult Patient Have Acute Meningitis? | |
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UPDATE: Meningitis, Adult | |
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Is This Woman Perimenopoausal? | |
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UPDATE: Menopause | |
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Does This Patient Have Aortic Regurgitation? | |
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UPDATE: Murmur, Diastolic | |
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Does This Patient Have an Abnormal Systolic Murmur? | |
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UPDATE: Murmur, Systolic | |
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Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis? | |
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UPDATE: Myasthenia Gravis | |
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Is This Patient Having a Myocardial Infarction? | |
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UPDATE: Myocardial Infarction | |
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Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis? | |
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UPDATE: Osteoporosis | |
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Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media? | |
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UPDATE: Otitis Media, Child | |
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Does This Patient Have Parkinson Disease? | |
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UPDATE: Parkinsonism | |
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Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin? | |
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UPDATE: Penicillin Allergy | |
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Does This Adult Patient Have Community-Acquired Pneumonia? | |
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UPDATE: Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adult | |
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Does This Infant Have Pneumonia? | |
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UPDATE: Pneumonia, Infant and Child | |
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Is This Patient Pregnant? | |
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UPDATE: Early Pregnancy | |
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Does This Patient Have Pulmonary Embolism? | |
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UPDATE: Pulmonary Embolism | |
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Does This Patient Have an Instability of the Shoulder or a Labrum Lesion? | |
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UPDATE: Shoulder Instability | |
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Does This Patient Have Sinusitis? | |
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UPDATE: Sinusitis | |
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Does This Patient Have Splenomegaly? | |
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UPDATE: Splenomegaly | |
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Does This Patient Have Strep Throat? | |
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UPDATE: Streptococcal Pharyngitis | |
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Is This Patient Having a Stroke? | |
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UPDATE: Stroke | |
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Does This Patient Have Temporal Arteritis? | |
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UPDATE: Temporal Arteritis | |
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Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection? | |
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UPDATE: Thoracic Aortic Dissection | |
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Does This Woman Have an Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection? | |
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UPDATE: Urinary Tract Infection, Women | |
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What is Causing This Patient's Vaginal Symptoms? | |
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UPDATE: Vaginitis | |
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Does This Dizzy Patient Have a Serious Form of Vertigo? | |
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UPDATE: Vertigo | |
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Index | |