Bookeditors, Daniel Bernstein, Steven P. Shelov.
Summary: Textbook concentrates on evaluative skills and the rational development of differential diagnosis. It also covers clinical practice in the context of recent trends in the delivery of health care, including legal issues, coding, utilization review, utilization management and more.
Contents:
I. General pediatric practice :
1. Approach to the normal newborn
2. Health supervision visit
3. Adolescent medicine
4. Principles of pediatric nutrition, fluids, and electrolytes
5. Behavioral pediatrics
6. Socioeconomic and cultural issues in pediatrics
7. Ethical issues in pediatric practice
8. Health care economics and the future of health care organization
II. Pediatric subspecialties :
9. Infectious diseases
10. Neonatology
11. Genetics
12. Developmental disabilities
13. Cardiology
14. Endocrinology and disorders of growth
15. Gastroenterology
16. Hematology and oncology
17. Allergy and immunology
18. Pulmonology
19. Neurology
20. Nephrology
21. Rheumatology
22. Dermatology
23. Trauma, ingestion, and burns
24. Pediatric intensive care
25. Pediatric surgery
26. Pediatric subspecialties.