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FocusonAdultHealth’sHandbookof Laboratory& DiagnosticTests LippincottWilliams&Wilkins 978-1-4511-7318-5 • February2012 • Softbound •5” x8” •576pp.

This companion book to Focus onAdultHealth: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-colordesignand illustrations. • Alphabetic, color-coded listof tests. • Concise, clinical facts. • NursingAlerts highlighting critical information. • Charts and illustrations comparingnormal andabnormal findings.

Table of Contents Contents Part I: SpecimenCollection Part II: DiagnosticTests (in alphabetical order) SelectedReferences Index

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