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School of Nursing: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

LibGuide for students and faculty associated with Charles R. Drew University's School of Nursing

Ebooks on Laboratory Diagnosis

Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications by Anne M. Van Leeuwen; Mickey L. Bladh
8th ed., F. A. Davis Company, 2019.
Drugs and Laboratory Parameters by Achille Patrizio Caputi; Giuseppina Fava; Nicholas Moore (Preface by)
SEEd srl, 2010.
Ferri's Best Test : A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging by Fred F. Ferri
4th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2019
Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests by Rick Daniels
3rd ed., Cengage Learning, 2014.
Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics by Nader Rifai
6th ed., Elsevier, 2018.
Diagnostic Cytopathology by Winifred Gray; Gabrijela Kocjan;
3rd ed., Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2010.
Diagnostic Cytopathology Essentials by Gabrijela Kocjan; Winifred Gray; Tanya Levine; Ika Kardum-Skelin; Philippe Vielh
Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2013.
Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Disease by Richard L. Kradin
2nd ed., Saunders, 2018.
Guide to Diagnostic Tests by Diana Nicoll; Michael Pignone; Stephen J. McPhee; Chuanyi Mark Lu
7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2017

Ebooks on Diagnostic Imaging

Diagnostic Imaging by Andrea G. Rockall; Andrew Hatrick; Peter Armstrong; Martin Wastie
7th ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Primer of Diagnostic Imaging by Mukesh G. Harisinghani; John W. Chen; Ralph Weissleder
6th ed., /Elsevier, 2019.
Ferri's Best Test : A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging by Fred F. Ferri
4th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2019
Grainger and Allison's Diagnostic Radiology, 2 Volume Set by Andy Adam; Adrian K. Dixon; Jonathan H. Gillard; Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop
7th ed., Elsevier, 2021.
Textbook of Diagnostic Sonography by Sandra L. Hagen-Ansert
9th ed., Mosby/Elsevier, 2023.
Caffey's Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging by Brian D. Coley
13th ed., Elsevier, 2019.
Chapman and Nakielny's Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis by Hameed Rafiee
7th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2020.
Diagnostic Ultrasound by Carol M. Rumack; Deborah Levine
5th ed., Elsevier, 2018.
Grainger and Allison's Diagnostic Radiology Essentials by Lee A. Grant; Nyree Griffin
2nd ed., /Elsevier, 2019.

Ebooks on Diagnosis

Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis by Steven McGee
Call Number: RES WB 200 M347 2018
4th ed., Elsevier, 2018.
Textbook of Physical Diagnosis by Mark H. Swartz
8th ed., Elsevier, 2021
Symptom to Diagnosis an Evidence Based Guide by Scott D. C. Stern; Adam S. Cifu; Diane Altkorn
4th ed., Lange/McGraw-Hill, 2020..
The Merck Manual Professional Version by Robert S. Porter
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., 2019.
Zitelli and Davis' Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis by Basil J. Zitelli; Sara C. McIntire; Andrew J. Nowalk; Jessica Garrison
8th ed., Elsevier, 2023.
QMDT : Quick Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2024 by Maxine A. Papadakis, Stephen J. McPhee, Jennifer Bernstein
McGraw Hill, 2024.

Ebooks on Differential Diagnosis

The Patient History : An Evidence-Based Approach to Differential Diagnosis by Mark Henderson; Lawrence Tierney; Gerald Smetana
2nd ed., Lange/McGraw-Hill, 2012.
Churchill's Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis by Andrew T. Raftery; Eric Ks Lim; Andrew J. K. Östör
4th ed., Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2014.
Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints by Andrew B. Symons; Robert H. Seller
7th ed., Elsevier, 2018

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Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis Resources on the Web

Diagnosaurus: From Access Medicine. Search this site by disease or symptom to retrieve possible differential diagnoses.

Rational Clinical Examination: The articles in this series of systematic reviews from JAMA delineate definitive diagnostic strategies for patients presenting with various symptoms.

Duke University Health System Laboratory Test Catalogue: Information about procedures at DUHS, normal values, and some interpretive information about test results.

Lab Tests Online: A peer-reviewed site with lots of information about lab tests, why they are done, and what the results may mean.From the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.