Bedside Diagnosis
An Annotated Bibliography of Literature on Physical Examination and Interviewing
Henry Schneiderman, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
and Associate Professor of Pathology,
University of Connecticut School of Medicine,
and Travelers Center on Aging,
Farmington, Connecticut;
Physician-in-Chief, Hebrew Home & Hospital, West Hartford, Connecticut
Aldo J. Peixoto, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Nephrology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, Connecticut
THIRD EDITION
American College of Physicians
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dedication
To the memory of my beloved parents
Moe Schneiderman (1913--1973)
and
Betty Bernstein Schneiderman (1919--1976)
and to the memory of
Hacib Aoun, MD (1955--1992)
a brave friend and respected colleague
H.S.
To my parents
Aldo Jose Peixoto
and
Ana Kotzias Peixoto
ultimate sources of incentive and unconditional love
A.J.P., Filho
Authors' Note
Many clinicians express dissatisfaction with their own bedside diagnostic skills and perceive an atrophy of these skills across the profession. This bibliography is intended to remedy one part of the problem: lack of awareness about, and thus ready access to, sources of helpful information. The widest possible range of sources and useful topics was reviewed in choosing the works cited.
Acknowledgments
My wife, Rosemaria Memoli, offered many constructive, critical insights. She and our son, Joseph Natale Schneiderman, tolerated my working endlessly on this project, inevitably at the expense of our time together. I will always remain grateful to them for this among many other reasons. —H.S.
Ms. Joan Radeen tirelessly handled a volume of secretarial work relating to this project that exceeded what should be asked of anybody, and she always did so cheerfully and expertly. Jessica Davidson dug out many obscure articles. Joel Brown jumped in with both feet, most helpfully, at the two-minute warning. We are most grateful to each of these people. Our thanks also to the publications staff of the American College of Physicians, who were consistently professional, practical, supportive, and helpful. This work was completed in part while Dr. Peixoto was Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. —H.S. and A.J.P.
Introduction to the Third Edition
Clinicians worldwide continue to produce new work on physical diagnosis that can be employed daily at the bedside, to the great benefit of patients everywhere. The prospect of improving our clinical work—that is, taking better care of the patients, who are the raison d'être of medicine—means that an updating and rewriting of Bedside Diagnosis was indispensable and timely.
For this edition we have included a great many new papers and books. We have also become much tougher about removing older works. We have rewritten many of the commentaries to make them clearer and more useful. We realize that even the most dedicated physician will be unable to find the time to read every article or book of interest. This being so, readers will rely on our statements and summaries. We have included critical comments because we recognize that these form as important a help to the practicing physician as do favorable comments.
Two other major changes mark this third edition. First, it is no longer a one-author work. Many constructive and collegial disagreements between the two of us have enriched our choices of which papers to include, which to exclude, and what to say about each. Second, we have deleted the author addresses that were a feature of the second edition on grounds of their not being utilized. If the reader does wish to contact the author of an article referenced in this book, he or she may write to the published address for reprints; lacking the article in hand to check this, the reader should visit or telephone a medical library that will have national and international listings of physicians. The reader may also search various sources on the Internet.
Many important articles have not been included in this bibliography, and readers are welcome to suggest candidates for a future edition. No one can know every good work that is out there, and no two readers will judge the same set of papers to be indispensable. We have tried to avoid articles on imaging, laboratory studies, and other topics that exceed the scope of this work. Physical diagnosis illuminates an immense set of issues for every clinician, but it is only one part of the universe of medicine.
The computer searching of the literature for this edition was performed in mid-1996; the most recent article included herein dates from that year.
Henry Schneiderman, MD, FACP
Aldo J. Peixoto, MD
Introduction to the First Edition (in part)
The large amount of literature on bedside diagnosis continues to grow. Most practitioners, trainees, and teachers remain unaware of this literature and do not go beyond introductory textbooks to address questions on physical diagnosis. This bibliography was compiled to extend the resources of physicians.
A computerized search of the medical literature from 1974 through 1984 was done using standard descriptors for interviewing and examination. From among 4000 citations (a third of which proved relevant), those sources with the most new information and applicability, highest quality science, and most lucid presentation were selected. Monthly update searches, using the same descriptors, added citations through 1987. Materials not retrieved in the search, literature for which key (indexing) terms did not reflect its significant content on bedside diagnosis, materials collected by the author and by others, and references cited throughout the medical literature were also reviewed.
In selecting entries, accessibility for physicians was considered. If a journal cited here is not available, a reference librarian (and very likely use of Inter-Library Loan) can help locate it. Many authors also have large supplies of reprints, particularly if their article appeared in a lesser-known journal.
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