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Geriatrics At Your Fingertips is an essential tool in evaluating and managing the diseases and disorders that most commonly affect older persons. It is an excellent tool for all practicing clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists, as well as professionals-in-training in all of these disciplines.
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips features:
- A variety of assessment tools and algorithms
- Recommended diagnostic tests
- Tables with specific information on appropriate prescribing for older adults
- Useful Web sites and phone numbers for providers and patients
- A detailed medication and subject index
- Ready Reference page numbers on the back cover to the most commonly used entries
The completely revised 2009 Edition is based on newly released clinical guidelines and medications.
New sections include:
- updates on Medicare Part D coverage
- estimating life expectancy
- perioperative medical therapy to reduce cardiovascular complications of surgery
- multiple myeloma
- prescription drug misuse
- designation of medications available as generic formulations that may be less expensive for patients
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Also Now Available: The newly updated Geriatrics At Your Fingertips for your PDA has working calculators and assessment tools, extensive index and search functions, and tools to create notes and bookmarks. For more information go to www.geriatricsatyourfingertips.org.
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