Publisher's Synopsis
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine stands as the benchmark for authoritative, practical information on patient care and the pathogenesis and clinical management of symptoms and signs and specific diseases. Written and edited by the world's top experts in their respective fields, this landmark guide provides the comprehensive, accurate, and essential coverage of the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
Harrison's is world-renowned as the most authoritative source for:
Descriptions of disease mechanisms and how the clinician can apply that knowledge for the best patient care and optimal diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases
Clear, concise schemas that facilitate the generation of differential diagnoses to reason efficiently through complex real world clinical cases
The physiologic and epidemiologic basis of signs and symptoms, which are covered through a wealth of unsurpassed expert guidance and linked to the disease-specific chapters that follow
Updated clinical trial results and recommended guidelines
Excellent and extensive visual support, including radiographs, clinical photos, schematics, and high-quality drawings
Coverage of both therapeutic approaches and specific treatment regimens
Practical clinical decision trees and algorithms
Organ-specific sections, with clinically relevant pathophysiology and practical clinical advice on the approach to the patient, strategies towards building a differential diagnosis, outstanding clinical algorithms and diagnostic schema, a wealth of clinical images and diagrams, current clinical guidelines, general and specific approaches to therapy
Harrison's remains the most trusted resource in a world influenced by endless sources of medical information. The most timely and comprehensive updates from the world's top experts are featured in the 21st edition:
Current coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, from COVID to dementia to sepsis to multiple sclerosis to lung cancer
Updated content that reflects new approved therapeutics and new practice-changing guidelines and evidence summaries
More than 1000 clinical, pathological, and radiographic photographs, diagnostic and therapeutic decision trees, and clear schematics and diagrams describing pathophysiologic processes
More than a dozen atlases featuring curated collections of visual aspects of diagnosis and management
Complete, updated curation and synthesis of primary medical literature which incorporates current data from major studies and clinical trials
Clinical reasoning resources and helpful disease/presentation schemas
Clinically relevant coverage of disease mechanics and pathophysiology, and related therapeutic mechanisms
