Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2015: 5 Books in 1

Fred F. Ferri

Elsevier/Mosby, Jun 16, 2014 - Clinical medicine - 1824 pages

"The book's big plus is the excellent and accessible layout designed for a rapid read of a specific topic. Having an electronic version available saves the user having to lug around a big textbook which still has its place." Dr Harry Brown, October 2014

Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2015 is the fastest, most effective way to access current diagnostic and therapeutic information on more than 700 common medical conditions. Dr. Ferri's popular "5 books in 1" format provides quick guidance on short QT syndrome, microscopic polyangiitis, fungal meningitis, and much more. Now featuring expanded online components, this medical reference makes the answers you need even easier to find - anytime, anywhere.

"Apart from the sheer volume of information available, the book's big plus is the excellent and accessible layout designed for a rapid read of a specific topic. Having an electronic version available saves the user having to lug around a big textbook which still has its place". Reviewed by: Dr Harry Brown, October 2014

• Review normal values and interpret results for more than 200 lab tests.
• Improve your family healthcare practice's efficiency with cost-effective referral and consultation guidelines.

• Identify and treat a broader range of disorders, including diabetic foot infections, hypergonadism, and acute liver failure, with 22 new topics in the Diseases & Disorders section.
• Improve your interpretation of presenting symptoms with 38 new topics and 40 new images in the Differential Diagnosis section, and optimize patient care with more than 250 new figures and tables.
• Rapidly find the answers you need with separate sections on diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory results, and clinical preventive services, plus an at-a-glance format that uses cross-references, outlines, bullets, tables, boxes, and algorithms to expedite your search.
• Expedite insurance reimbursements with current ICD-9 and future ICD-10 insurance billing codes.
• Access full-color images and more than 90 online-only topics at Expert Consult, as well as EBMs, Suggested Reading, Patient Teaching Guides, and additional algorithms.

About the author

Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean's teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2015: 5 Books in 1; ClinicalKey 2012, ISSN 1541-4515; Ferri's Medical Solutions Series
• Author: Fred F. Ferri
• Editor: Fred F. Ferri
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Elsevier/Mosby, 2014
• ISBN: 0323083757, 9780323083751
• Length: 1824 pages