Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS : ContributorsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1.A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical ExaminationUPDATE: Primer on Precision and Accuracy2.Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm3.Does This Patient Have Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension?UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits4.Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem?UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking5.Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis? UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult6.Does This Patient Have Ascites?UPDATE: Ascites7.What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About LowBack Pain?UPDATE: Low Back Pain8.Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer? UPDATE: Breast Cancer9.Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit?UPDATE: Carotid Bruit10.Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel11.Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure?UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure12.Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis? UPDATE: Cholecystitis13.Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation?UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease14.Does This Patient Have Clubbing?UPDATE: Clubbing15.Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed?UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence16(A).Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults?16(B). Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure?UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure17.Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac ArrestUPDATE: Death18(A).Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (1998)18(B). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (2006)UPDATE: Deep Vein Thrombosis19.Is This Patient Clinically Depressed? UPDATE: Depression20.Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer? UPDATE: Family History of Cancer21.Does This Patient Have a Goiter?UPDATE: Goiter22.Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly?UPDATE: HepatomegalyUPDATE: Hypertension24.Is This Adult Patient Hypovolemic?UPDATE: Hypovolemia, Adult25.Is This Child Dehydrated?UPDATE: Hypopvolemia, Child26.Does This Patient Have Influenza?UPDATE: Influenza27.Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee? UPDATE: Knee Ligaments and Menisci28.Is This Adult Patient Malnourished?UPDATE: Malnourishment, Adult29.Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma?UPDATE: Melanoma30.Does This Adult Patient Have Acute Meningitis? UPDATE: Meningitis, Adult31.Is This Woman Perimenopoausal?UPDATE: Menopause32.Does This Patient Have Aortic Regurgitation?UPDATE: Murmur, Diastolic33.Does This Patient Have an Abnormal Systolic Murmur?UPDATE: Murmur, Systolic34.Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis?UPDATE: Myasthenia Gravis35.Is This Patient Having a Myocardial Infarction?UPDATE: Myocardial Infarction36.Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis?UPDATE: Osteoporosis37.Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media? UPDATE: Otitis Media, Child38.Does This Patient Have Parkinson Disease?UPDATE: Parkinsonism39.Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin? UPDATE: Penicillin Allergy40.Does This Adult Patient Have Community-Acquired Pneumonia? UPDATE: Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adult41.Does This Infant Have Pneumonia?UPDATE: Pneumonia, Infant and Child42.Is This Patient Pregnant? UPDATE: Early Pregnancy43.Does This Patient Have Pulmonary Embolism? UPDATE: Pulmonary Embolism44.Does This Patient Have an Instability of the Shoulder or a Labrum Lesion?UPDATE: Shoulder Instability45.Does This Patient Have Sinusitis? UPDATE: Sinusitis46.Does This Patient Have Splenomegaly? UPDATE: Splenomegaly47.Does This Patient Have Strep Throat?UPDATE: Streptococcal Pharyngitis48.Is This Patient Having a Stroke?UPDATE: Stroke49.Does This Patient Have Temporal Arteritis?UPDATE: Temporal Arteritis50.Does This Patient Have an Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection?UPDATE: Thoracic Aortic Dissection51.Does This Woman Have an Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection?UPDATE: Urinary Tract Infection, Women52.What is Causing This Patient's Vaginal Symptoms? UPDATE: Vaginitis53.Does This Dizzy Patient Have a Serious Form of Vertigo?UPDATE: VertigoIndex