The rational clinical examination : evidence-based clinical diagnosis

1. A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical Examination / David L. Sackett -- 2. Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm? / Frank A. Lederle, David L. Simel -- 3. Is Listening for Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension? / Jeffrey M. Turnbull -- 4. Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem? / James M. Kitchens -- 5. Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis? / James M. Wagner, W. Paul McKinney, John L. Carpenter -- 6. Does This Patient Have Ascites? : How to Divine Fluid in the Abdomen / John W. Williams, Jr., David L. Simel -- 7. What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About Low Back Pain? / Richard A. Deyo, James Rainville, Daniel L. Kent -- 8. Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer? : The Screening Clinical Breast Examination : Should It Be Done? How? / Mary B. Barton, Russell Harris -- 9. Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit? / Jean-Stephane Sauve ... [et al.] -- 10. Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? / Christopher A. D'Arcy, Steven McGee -- 11. Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure? / Deborah J. Cook, David L. Simel -- 12. Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis? / Robert L. Trowbridge, Nicole K. Rutkowski, Kaveh G. Shojania -- 13. Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation? / Donald R. Holleman Jr., David L. Simel -- 14. Does This Patient Have Clubbing? / Kathryn A. Myers, Donald R.E. Farquhar -- 15. Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed? / Barbara J. Stephenson ... [et al.] -- 16(A). Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults? / Robert G. Badgett, Cynthia D. Mulrow, Catherine R. Lucey -- 16(B). Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure? / Charlie S. Wang ... [et al.] -- 17. Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? : Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest / Christopher M. Booth ... [et al.] -- 18(A). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (1998) / Sonia Anand ... [et al.] -- 18(B). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (2006) / Philip S. Wells ... [et al.] -- 19. Is This Patient Clinically Depressed? / John W. Williams Jr. ... [et al.] -- 20. Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer? / Harvey J. Murff, David R. Spigel, Sapna Syngal -- 21. Does This Patient Have a Goiter? / Kerry Siminoski -- 22. Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly? / C. David Naylor -- 23. Does This Patient Have Hypertension? / Richard A. Reeves -- 24. Is This Adult Patient Hypovolemic? / Steven McGee, William B. Abernethy III, David L. Simel -- 25. Is This Child Dehydrated? / Michael J. Steiner, Darren A. DeWalt, Julie S. Byerley -- 26. Does This Patient Have Influenza? / Stephanie A. Call ... [et al.] -- 27. Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee? / Daniel H. Solomon ... [et al.] -- 28. Is This Adult Patient Malnourished? / Allan S. Detsky, Philip S. Smalley, Jose Chang -- 29. Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma? / John D. Whited, James M. Grichnik -- 30. Does This Adult Patient Have Acute Meningitis? / John Attia ... [et al.] -- 31. Is This Woman Perimenopausal? / Lori A. Bastian, Crystal M. Smith, Kavita Nanda -- 32. Does This Patient Have Aortic Regurgitation? / Niteesh K. Choudhry, Edward E. Etchells -- 33. Does This Patient Have an Abnormal Systolic Murmur? / Edward Etchells, Chaim Bell, Kenneth Robb -- 34. Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis? / Katalin Scherer, Richard S. Bedlack, David L. Simel -- 35. Is This Patient Having a Myocardial Infarction? / Akbar A. Panju ... [et al.] -- 36. Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis? / Amanda D. Green ... [et al.] -- 37. Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media? / Russell Rothman, Thomas Owens, David L. Simel -- 38. Does This Patient Have Parkinson Disease? / Goutham Rao ... [et al.] -- 39. Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin? / Alan R. Salkind, Paul G. Cuddy, John W. Foxworth -- 40. Does This Adult Patient Have Community-Acquired Pneumonia? / Joshua P. Metlay, Wishwa N. Kapoor, Michael J. Fine -- 41. Does This Infant Have Pneumonia? / Peter Margolis, Anne Gadomski -- 42. Is This Patient Pregnant? / Lori A. Bastian, Joanne T. Piscitelli -- 43. Does This Patient Have Pulmonary Embolism? / Sanjeev D. Chunilal ... [et al.] -- 44. Does This Patient Have an Instability of the Shoulder or a Labrum Lesion? / Jolanda J. Luime ... [et al.] -- 45. Does This Patient Have Sinusitis? / John W. Williams Jr, David L. Simel -- 46. Does This Patient Have Splenomegaly? / Steven A. Grover, Alan N. Barkun, David L. Sackett -- 47. Does This Patient Have Strep Throat? / Mark H. Ebell ... [et al.] -- 48. Is This Patient Having a Stroke? / Larry B. Goldstein, David L. Simel -- 49. Does This Patient Have Temporal Arteritis? / Gerald W. Smetana, Robert H. Shmerling -- 50. Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection? / Michael Klompas -- 51. Does This Woman Have an Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection? / Stephen Bent ... [et al.] -- 52. What Is Causing This Patient's Vaginal Symptoms? / Matthew R. Anderson, Kathleen Klink, Andreas Cohrssen -- 53. Does This Dizzy Patient Have a Serious Form of Vertigo? / David A. Froehling ... [et al.