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Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking is designed for medical, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and other students who are learning to interview patients, perform their physical examination, and apply clinical reasoning and shared decision making to their assessment and plan, based on a sound understanding of clinical evidence. The twelfth edition has many new features to facilitate student learning. As with previous editions, these changes spring from three sources: the feedback and reviews of students, teachers, and faculty; our commitment to making the book easier to read and more efficient to use; and the abundant new evidence that supports the techniques of examination, interviewing, and health promotion.
Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking
Throughout the twelfth edition, we emphasize common or important problems rather than the rare or esoteric, though at times we include unusual findings that are classic or life threatening. We encourage students to study the strong evidence base that informs each chapter and to carefully review the clinical guidelines and citations from the health care literature.
Special Features and Highlights
In this edition we have introduced clinical pearls, printed in blue, to highlight key points. We have also used color to highlight textboxes so students and teachers can quickly find important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques such as inspecting the fundus or measuring the jugular venous pressure. Many of the figures are new or have been updated and, for the first time, all figures are numbered with captions to make them easier to locate and reference in both the print and electronic editions.
Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking
Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, now in its twelfth edition,
spans an evolution of four decades. Drs. Barbara Bates and Robert Hoekelman, colleagues in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, launched the first edition in 1974 as a handson manual for medical and advanced practice nursing students learning to master the physical examination of adults and children. With clear prose and black and white drawings, they devoted 18 chapters to the techniques of regional
examination for adults and children. They devised the classic format of the Bates’ Guide still present today—black explanatory text in the major column, examples of abnormalities in red in the minor column, and comparative tables of abnormalities at the end of each chapter. Dr. Bickley became chief editor and author for the seventh edition, joined by Dr. Szilagyi for the eighth edition. By then the Bates’ Guide contained additional sections on anatomy and physiology and new chapters on interviewing, the approach to symptoms, the mental status examination, and clinical thinking from data to plan.
In this edition with pleasure and esteem the authors welcome Dr. Richard Hoffman, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of the
Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine/Iowa City VA Medical Center, as guest editor. Dr. Hoffman is Associate Editor for the American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club, and has been a peer reviewer for a number of prostate screening guidelines, authored two Cochrane reviews, and writes and reviews for UpToDate.
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