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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the core nursing content you need to master including cardiovascular, endocrine, fluid and electrolytes, gastrointestinal, integumentary, lymph/immune/infectious disease, musculoskeletal, neurosensory, pharmacology, reproductive, respiratory and urinary.

Adult Medical-Surgical Review Module, 7.1 Edition

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The landmark clinical guide to the role microorganisms play in human health and illnesses — extensively revised and updated

A Doody’s Core Title!

Linking fundamental microbiology concepts with the diagnosis and treatment of clinical infections, this one-of-a-kind, portable text delivers an essential overview of the organisms and agents involved in clinical microbiology. In addition to brief descriptions of the organisms, you’ll find vital perspectives on pathogenesis, diagnostic laboratory tests, clinical findings, treatment, and epidemiology. The book’s purpose is to introduce basic clinical microbiology through the fields of bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology giving you a far-reaching, yet accessible review of the discipline that you can’t find anywhere else. Supporting this acclaimed coverage are more than 300 informative illustrations and tables, each designed to clarify and drive home important chapter concepts.

New to this Edition:

• Updates to critical topics throughout, particularly in the areas of hepatitis viruses, the HIV virus, and bacterial virulence factors
• Refreshed USMLE questions
• Revised list of microorganisms and viruses featured on the inside of the book’s covers

Medical Microbiology, 24th edition

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For medical, veterinary, entomology and public health students, this acclaimed textbook has been fully updated and revised to reflect the most recent advancements. Each chapter is structured with the student in mind, organized by the major headings of Taxonomy, Morphology, Life History, Behavior and Ecology, Public Health and Veterinary Importance, and Prevention and Control. This second edition includes separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Internationally recognized editors Mullen and Durden surpass the competition by including extensive coverage of both medical and veterinary entomological importance.

* Follows in the tradition of Herm’s Medical and Veterinary Entomology
* The latest information on developments in entomology relating to public health and veterinary importance
* Two separate indexes for enhanced searchability: Taxonomic and Subject

New to this edition:
* Three new chapters
– Morphological Adaptations of Parasitic Arthropods
– Forensic Entomology
– Molecular Tools in Medical and Veterinary Entomology
* Online ancillaries: glossary, chapter images, study questions, and related web links
* 1700 word glossary
* Appendix of Arthropod-Related Viruses of Medical-Veterinary Importance
* Numerous new full-color images, illustrations and maps throughout

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Second Edition

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This Third Edition of Medical Cell Biology focuses on the scientific aspects of cell biology important to medical students, dental students, veterinary students, and prehealth undergraduates. Maintaining a primary focus on eukaryotic cell biology, the text explains general cell biology principles in the context of organ systems and human and animal disease.

* 60% New Material!
* New Topics include:
Apoptosis and cell dealth from a neural perspective
Signal transduction as it relates to normal and abnormal heart function
Cell cycle and cell division related to cancer biology
* All new clinical cases
* Serves as a prep guide to the National Medical Board Exam with a CD-ROM of 200 sample board-style questions (using Exam Master(R) technology): www.exammaster.com
* Focuses on eukaryotic cell biology as it related to human disease, thus making the subject more accessible to pre-med and pre-health students

Medical Cell Biology, Third Edition

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An interdisciplinary team of experts teaches newcomers how to open, staff, and equip an insurance-friendly office for patients, and how to raise the capital necessary for it.

New coverage in the second edition includes:

• How to write a medical office business plan
• Compliance methods
• Risk and programs
• The insurance CPT coding issues
• Six-sigma initiatives
• Futuristic information technology to track clinical outcomes
• Treatment results and medical care
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The Business of Medical Practice: Advanced Profit Maximization Techniques for Savvy Doctors, 2nd Edition

• ISBN13: 9780553592269
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Here in one compact volume is a personal medical reference guide you can turn to with trust. The fully expanded and revised sixth edition of The Bantam Medical Dictionary provides the most up-to-date medical information in an easy-to-access format specifically designed for general readers, students, and health-care professionals. Compiled and reviewed by a distinguished team of more than forty doctors and experts, this essential reference covers the entire domain of the health sciences, defining more than 11,000 medical terms and concepts in all the major medical and surgical specialties. You’ll find commonly prescribed drugs described, along with their generic and brand names, as well as definitions of frequently used medical abbreviations and acronyms. Comprehensive and clearly written, this is the only medical dictionary you’ll ever need.

The Bantam Medical Dictionary, Sixth Edition

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This newly updated and expanded edition of The Economics of Health and Medical Care strikes the necessary balance of population-based health economics and the more traditional, market-oriented approach to health care economics. The Fifth Edition provides the necessary tools to develop a systematic and disciplined approach for solving economic problems in a health care context while learning the importance of being able to identify, define, measure, explain, and predict certain economic phenomena and evaluate the relevance of end results. Fundamental, yet comprehensive in coverage, the focus is on how to think about economic problems in a systematic way–using the three major tasks of economics–Descriptive Economics, Explanatory Economics, and Evaluative Economics

The Economics of Health and Medical Care, 5th Edition

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Critically acclaimed and resoundingly popular in its first edition, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments and advances–particularly in software–made in the field over the last 10 years. Now, more than ever, it provides an outstanding text for upper-level and graduate courses in survival analysis, biostatistics, and time-to-event analysis.The treatment begins with an introduction to survival analysis and a description of four studies that lead to survival data. Subsequent chapters then use those data sets and others to illustrate the various analytical techniques applicable to such data, including the Cox regression model, the Weibull proportional hazards model, and others. This edition features a more detailed treatment of topics such as parametric models, accelerated failure time models, and analysis of interval-censored data. The author also focuses the software section on the use of SAS, summarising the methods used by the software to generate its output and examining that output in detail. Profusely illustrated with examples and written in the author’s trademark, easy-to-follow style, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition is a thorough, practical guide to survival analysis that reflects current statistical practices.

Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Second Edition

• ISBN13: 9780781785921
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Handbook for Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, North American Edition

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Strengthen your ability to code accurately and obtain the correct reimbursement for medical services with this helpful workbook. Specifically designed to parallel the organization of Step-By-Step Medical Coding 2009 Edition, it provides more than 1,000 questions and terminology exercises (with odd numbered answers provided), as well as over 80 original source documents to familiarize you with the materials you’ll encounter in practice.

• Original source documents provide real-world experience to better prepare you for professional expectations.
• More than 1,000 questions and terminology exercises follow the same answer format as the main text to promote critical thinking (with odd numbered answers provided).
• Original reports, cleared of all confidential information, simulate real-world experience in such areas as:

• Arthroscopy
• Fracture repair with skeletal fixation
• Muscle repair
• Bronchoscopy
• Adenotonsillectomy
• Thoracentesis
• Endarterectomy.
• Cesarean delivery
• Tubal ligation
• Amniocentesis
• Laboratory
• Pathology

• A 2-color design makes it easy to find specific features and streamline your review and practice.

• Updated content reflects the latest developments in coding so you can practice with the most current information available.

Workbook for Step-by-Step Medical Coding 2009 Edition