Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition [Paperback]

Stephen Moore (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1416000364 | ISBN-13: 978-1416000365 | Publication Date: September 14, 2004 | Edition: 7

The new edition of this popular patient teaching tool improves compliance, speeds recovery, and increases understanding. Over 500 patient instruction fact sheets on topics from acne to zinc deficiency help patients understand what their illness is, how it will affect their regular routine, and when to call a doctor. Specially perforated, three-hole-punched pages can be stored and reused again and again for photocopying and distribution to patients when discussing follow-up care. An accompanying FREE CD-ROM lets readers customize and print out the instruction sheets from their computers in Latin American Spanish and English. A bonus Latin American Spanish and English audio pronunciation guide is included on the CD-ROM.

• Includes descriptions of each illness, including frequent signs and symptoms, possible causes, risks, preventive measures, expected outcomes, possible complications, and treatments.
• Covers over 500 topics on problems both small (indigestion) and large (congestive heart failure).
• Features an organization by topic for ease of use.
• Includes a FREE Windows® and Macintosh® compatible CD-ROM - now featuring Latin American Spanish and English instructions - lets you personalize or customize instruction sheets on your computer and print them out. It also contains a bonus audio Latin American Spanish and English pronunciation guide.

• Provides instructions for 43 new topics, with revisions and updates to all other over 450 patient instruction sheets, reflecting the latest therapeutic information.
• Includes extra space on each sheet that allows users to tailor instructions to each patient's needs.
• Five all-new appendices bring you the latest information on dietary supplements · buying prescription drugs online · safe use of prescription drugs · adult screening tests and immunizations · and Walking exercise and fitness.
• Provides instructions for 43 new topics, with revisions and updates to all other over 450 patient instruction sheets, reflecting the latest therapeutic information.
• A Windows® and Macintosh® compatible CD-ROM - now featuring Latin American Spanish and English instructions - lets you personalize or customize instruction sheets on your computer and print them out

BONUS CD-ROM offers customizable Instruction sheets!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Being able to offer a patient an easy-to-read general piece of reference material can make for better overall patient encounters and patient care. This book most assuredly provides that opportunity."-Journal of the American board of Family Practice (review of the 6th edition).

Book Description

Help your patients understand their illness with over 500 patient instruction fact sheets on topics from acne to zinc deficiency

Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 7 edition (September 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416000364
• ISBN-13: 978-1416000365
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #887,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #67 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Reference

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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Reference Standard, November 23, 1998

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Christina R. Eckenroth (Glendora , NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Griffith's Instructions for Patients Book with CD-ROM (Paperback)

Intended to be a compendium of handouts for physicians to give to patients, Griffith's Instructions provides information on a wide variety of illnesses. From croup to tooth grinding, this book covers maladies both small, i.e. indigestion, and large, i.e. congestive heart failure, in a consistent, matter-of fact presentation. All of the perforated, pull out discussions include basic descriptions of the illness, including the frequent signs and symptoms, a brief synopsis of possible causes, risks, preventative measures, expected outcomes, and possible complications. Treatments are also discussed through both general measures and medications with notes on recommended activity and diet. The 6th edition revises and updates all of the problems that patients regularly bring to their doctors discussed in the 5th edition and adds more than twenty new ones.

Extensive appendices provide diets, including the latest food pyramid guidelines, daily values, nutrition data and specific diet regimes. There are also a plethora of diagrams and instructions for wellness, such as how to perform breast and testicular self-exams. Unlabeled diagrams of the body, ranging from eye to the endocrine system (both male and female) are also provided.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beware of CD-ROM, August 22, 2005

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Lisa M. Rhea (Franklin, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition (Paperback)

This series of books have been very helpful in my practice. I currently use the 6th edition. I was excited that the Spanish translation for handouts is included on the CD-ROM. However, there is one crucial difference: With the 6th edition the contents can be INSTALLED on your computer (and the CD then stored). Then topics can be searched and printed per PDF files/Acrobat reader. In the 6th edition, each topic print out is ONE page. HOWEVER, with the 7th edition, the CD-ROM MUST BE in the cd drive to work. This ties up that drive and is very inconvenient in a busy practice, if you have other uses for that drive. In the 7th edition, the printouts can be THREE pages long, consuming much more paper!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition, January 12, 2007

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Anthony W. Shallin (Georgetown, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Griffith's Instructions for Patients, Seventh Edition (Paperback)

This is a valuable resource for any doctor's office. I use it every day. It is very clearly and logically written.