Clinical Guidelines for Management and Referral of Common Conditions
Clinical Guidelines for Management and Referral of Common Conditions
Clinical Guidelines for Management and Referral of Common Conditions
This guide provides a firm base for the attainment of equity and high standards in health care and the development of rational procurement and use of drugs by all prescribers, dispensers, hospital managers, and patients. The Guidelines are for the use of all clinicians who have the primary responsibility for diagnosis, management, and referral of outpatients and inpatients. They are also very useful to interns, medical students, clinical officers, pharmacists, and nurses in training.
This PDF covers the following topics related to Internal Medicine :
Introduction into the study of internal medicine, Subspecialties of internal
medicine, their basic diagnosis, History of internal medicine.
This
lecture note has been written primarily for Health officer students; however it
can also be used by medical students and all other health science students who
deal with patients, who have medical illnesses. Topics covered includes:
Infectious diseases, Disease of the respiratory System, Diseases of the
Cardiovascular System, Diaseses of the Kidney, Disease of the Gastrointestinal
system, Hematologic Diseases, Disease of Metabolism and Endocrine System,
Diseases of the Nervous System.
This book emphasis the change in focus in renal
medicine from treatment of established kidney disease to earlier identification
and prevention of kidney disease. It is focussing on prevention and on the early
detection and treatment of potentially progressive disease, whilst the
prevalence of risk factors for CKD, such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension
is rising.