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Medical Surgical
Focus on Adult Health’s Handbook of Laboratory &
Diagnostic Tests
Lippincott Williams &Wilkins
978-1-4511-7318-5 • February 2012 • Softbound • 5” x 8” • 576 pp.
This companion book to
Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical
Nursing
is a concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds
of test results and their implications. The two-part presentation
includes a review of specimen collection procedures followed by an
alphabetical list of tests. Tests include important information about
reference values, normal and abnormal values as well as associated
nursing implications, interfering factors, and essential nursing
considerations before, during, and after the test.
Features
• Full-color design and illustrations.
• Alphabetic, color-coded list of tests.
• Concise, clinical facts.
• Nursing Alerts highlighting critical information.
• Charts and illustrations comparing normal and abnormal findings.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part I:
Specimen Collection
Part II:
Diagnostic Tests (in
alphabetical order)
Selected References
Index