Books: The 10-Minute Clincial Assessment: A Systematic and Easy to Follow Guide - From Hirsutism to Heart Failure to Self-Harm.
Knut Schroeder Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, PB, 832pp, £49.99, 978-1119106340 ::: ::: ::: ::: Ten-minute consultations are often rushed affairs with most of us running late. So how do we keep to time while being clinically effective, safe, and patient centred? The 10-Minute Clinical Assessment by Knut Schroeder has the answers. ::: ::: The book provides a helpful guide for GPs, nurses, GP trainees, and medical students wanting to deliver a more efficient consultation that also includes the essential clinical content. It covers a comprehensive range of …
In the short paper we report the results of a workshop on the feasibility to carried out a brief counselling on smoking cessation and physical activity to female smokers attending the Italian National Health System Cervical Cancer Screening Program. The considerations derived from the midwives' experience during the recruitment of women for the SPRINT study, an intervention trial designed in order to verify the effectiveness of a standard counselling intervention on smoking cessation delivered by trained midwives in a gender-specific setting, the outpatient cervical cancer screening visits.