by Sampath Wijesinghe
Real-life primary care case studies* from
more than 50 primary care providers, including physician assistants,
nurse practitioners, and physicians!
101 Primary Care Case Studies
offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to
help you work through a patient’s chief complaint. Through narrative
case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage
your patient based on the history of present illness, review of
systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings. This
workbook will ask probing questions to help you determine differential
and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests to order, and appropriate
patient management strategies using relevant and timely references to
support your decisions. The organization of each case study simulates
the patient care journey from chief complaint to outcome.
Serving
as a virtual clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used
independently or in a classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust
online student supplement that provides answers to all questions, real
outcomes of the cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors
on how the patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook
help you work through patient cases clinically, it will also share
important, but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to
successfully communicate with and care for your patients.
Covering
conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this
workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic
perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even
includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT
(E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together
both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights into
quality and compassionate care.
Key Features
- Provides
real-life patient cases from an interprofessional author team of
physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians
- Uses
a templated case study design and critical thinking exercises to help
you methodically work through various patient scenarios
- Teaches clinical and bedside manner skills imperative for delivering quality patient care
- Covers patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations
- Offers additional insight on patient education, medical and legal concerns, and interprofessional collaboration
- Includes a robust online student supplement with valuable insights from the authors on how they successfully managed the cases
- Provides
instructors with a table of contents that is filterable by chief
complaint, diagnosis, patient population, and organ system
