Product Description

The Bellevue Guide to Health Care represents a collaboration among primary care and specialist physicians in the Department of Medicine at New York School of Medicine. It is intended for use by teachers, students and practitioners of primary care and in the hospital outpatient department. The Guide presents data about prevalence of disease, accuracy and diagnosis from congestive heart failure to domestic violence. Advice about patient management is interwoven with annotated references in a unique two column format providing the actual data upon which recommendations are based. (For example, recommendations to use statin drugs to treat hypermlipidemia are accompanied by literature based estimates of live–saving potential by statins among various patient groups.)
Readers of The Guide are encouraged to use this data to tailor clinical decisions to meet the needs of their individual patients.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2605465 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 403 pages

From the Back Cover
The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine is a unique, evidence–based reference for clinicians working, teaching, and learning in primary care and outpatient settings. For over 40 major topics, the Guide delivers the information most needed by practitioners. Frequently asked questions are incorporated into the text such as:

• Which statin drug is best at preventing coronary outcomes?


• What is the advantage of adding a thallium scan to a treadmill test?


• How many mammograms does it take to save one life in a screening program?


• What exactly is the effect of weight loss on glucose control?


• What is the lifetime incidence of cirrhosis in hepatitis C infection?


• Do any medications really work in obesity?

Its tried and tested format comprises easily assimilated recommendations to management of common medical conditions, backed up by the evidence and references presented alongside the relevant text in a unique two column format.

For over four years, the Bellevue Guide has been used by more than one hundred primary care clinicians in Bellevue Hospital Center and found to be invaluable as a truly practical evidence based resource for managing outpatients. Now fully revised, and with updated literature searches, it is available as a published book.

Combining the experience of doctors working with outpatients in one of the busiest clinics in New York with critically appraised evidence, this is a hands–on book for all health care providers working in primary care settings.

It will be kept constantly up to date with its free access website, providing added value to this outstanding guide.