CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2024, 21st Edition,2023 Original PDF

The definitive standards that primary care physicians require in order to identify and manage the majority of common outpatient ailments have been compiled, condensed, and updated for convenience of access.This well-liked yearly resource strikes the ideal balance between clinical necessity and brevity, providing clinicians with all the most recent evidence-based guidelines they need to treat the most common outpatient conditions. This book, which is the most comprehensive print compilation of primary care practice guidelines, includes information from medical specialty organizations, government agencies, expert panels, and other professional and scientific authorities.For busy clinicians, CURRENT Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2024 distills dense, unwieldy text into a useful, pertinent list of options. This indispensable resource transforms the vast amount of information available online into a useful, pertinent compilation of data that busy clinicians can use. The text is presented in an easy-to-navigate outline and tabular format, with each topic carefully chosen for its relevance to ambulatory medicine office practices.• A variety of suggestions from government agencies, expert panels, medical specialty organizations, and other professional and scientific authorities are incorporated into the content.NEW: Several topics have been added, including the screening and prevention of eating disorders, the COVID vaccination in pregnancy, the prevention of pelvic floor dysfunction, the management of chest pain, left ventricular thrombus, and delirium. NEW: Updates reflecting the review of over 150 guidelines. NEW: Updates to guidelines for the screening and prevention of ASCVD; anxiety disorders in children, pediatric obesity, chronic pain, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, and osteoarthritis. The text is enhanced by a handy outline and tabular format, and topics are carefully chosen for relevance to the office practice of ambulatory medicine. Discordance tables highlight instances in which major guidelines do not mirror each other.• To improve clinician use, screening and condition prevention have been combined.