Full Description
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, is an essential resource for primary care clinicians seeking to integrate sex and gender differences into their practice. This edition emphasizes the unique framework that assists practitioners in providing personalized care. It aligns sex and gender medicine with precision medicine, helping healthcare providers attract patients who value clinicians that understand the nuances of sex and gender in healthcare.
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, includes updates on the evidence-based information on disease prevalence, diagnosis, testing, and treatment, as well as a new chapter on the sex and gender aspects of pain. Each chapter reflects how sex and gender impact disease presentation, physical examination, testing, treatment, and clinical decision-making.
Contents
Section I: The Importance of Sex and Gender in Patient Care
1. Application of Sex and Gender Health: A Practical Framework
2. Clinician-Patient Communication: Gender Influences
Section II: Sex and Gender Evidence in Health and Disease
3. Addiction: Sex and Gender Evidence in Alcohol, Tobacco, and Opioids Substance Use Disorders
4. Autoimmune Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Ankylosing Spondylitis
5. Cancer Screening and Prevention: Sex and Gender Evidence in Lung, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer
6. Cardiovascular Disease: Sex and Gender Evidence in Acute Ischemic Syndrome and Heart Failure
7. Gastrointestinal Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Liver Lesions, Gastroesophageal Reflux, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
8. Mental Health: Sex and Gender Evidence in Schizophrenia, Depression, and Anxiety Disorders
9. Metabolic Disorders: Sex and Gender Evidence in Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, and Obesity
10. Musculoskeletal Disorders: Sex and Gender Evidence in ACL Injuries, Osteoarthritis, and Osteoporosis
11. Neurological Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Stroke, Migraine, and Alzheimer's Dementia
12. Pharmacology: Sex and Gender Evidence in Medication Safety and Efficacy
13. Public Health in Your Practice: Sex and Gender Considerations in Access to Healthcare, Immunizations, and Intimate Partner Violence
14. Respiratory Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Obstructive Sleep Apnea, COPD, and Asthma
Section III: Beyond Point of Care: Sex and Gender Influences in the Community of Practice
15. The Business of Medicine: Making the Case for a Sex and Gender Practice
16. Knowledge Resources in Sex and Gender Health
17. Sex and gender differences in pain
18. Sex and gender differences in thyroid diseases
19. Sex and gender differences in hypertension
