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BOOK REVIEWS Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Book Review Improving Health Care, edited by Deborah Lewis, Gunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka, P. Zoe Stavri, and Holly Jimison, 258 pp, with illus, $69.95, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23991-X Type and Scope of Book: A multiauthored overview of the informatics principles and methods used in support of individuals and groups of health care consumers. Recommended Readership: Medical students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians interested in informatics will find this book delightful. Overall Grading: #### Peter L. Elkin, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century, edited by L. W. Fong and Kenneth Alibek, 273 pp, with illus, $99, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23684-8 Type and Scope of Book: This multiauthored review is from a monograph series on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Most of the authors are experts in the area and are employed in defense, with the federal government, or in biodefense. Recommended Readership: Although its stated readership is front-line health care providers, the book is more directed to infectious disease physicians, microbiologists, and public health leaders. Overall Grading: ### Robert Orenstein, DO, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Vascular Diagnosis, edited by M. Ashraf Mansour and Nicos Labropoulos, 573 pp, with illus, $139, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders (telephone: 800-545-2522), 2005, ISBN 0-72169426-8 Type and Scope of Book: A multiauthored review of noninvasive diagnostic techniques for vascular disease. Recommended Readership: Trainees or practitioners in the increasingly overlapping fields of vascular medicine, cardiology, vascular surgery, interventional radiology, and vascular technology. Grading Key Overall Grading: #### ★★★★★ = outstanding; ★★★★ = excellent; ★★★ = good; ★★ = fair; ★ = poor.
Ian R. McPhail, MD, Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Vascular/Interventional Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of© Medicine, Rochester,for Minn 2005 Mayo Foundation Medical Education and Research Mayo Clin Proc.
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Grading Key ★★★★★ = outstanding; ★★★★ = excellent; ★★★ = good; ★★ = fair; ★ = poor.
Expanded versions of these reviews and a list of books received can be found at www.mayoclinicproceedings.com. Click on Current Issue in the gray bar and scroll down the Table of Contents to Book Reviews.
Hypertension, edited by Matthew R. Weir, 259 pp, with illus, $42, Independence Mall West, Sixth Street at Race, Philadelphia, PA 19106, American College of Physicians (telephone: 800-523-1546), 2005, ISBN 1-930513-58-5 Type and Scope of Book: A focused multiauthored review of common clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. Recommended Readership: Trainees and practicing physicians involved in primary care medicine. Overall Grading: ### Gary L. Schwartz, MD, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Atlas of Sleep Medicine, edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty, Robert J. Thomas, and Meeta Bhatt, 362 pp, with illus, $95, Newton, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann (telephone: 800-5452522), 2005, ISBN 0-7506-7398-2 Type and Scope of Book: A comprehensive, multiauthored atlas of polysomnography and other techniques used in sleep medicine with clinical correlations, written at a specialist level. Recommended Readership: Sleep specialists, trainees in sleep medicine, polysomnographic technologists, and sleep centers. Overall Grading: #### Michael H. Silber, MB, ChB, Sleep Disorders Center and Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic Proceedings receives an average of 50 books each month complimentary from various publishers. Selected books are chosen for review, as space permits. All other books received will be listed on the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Web site (www.mayoclinicproceedings.com).
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Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century, edited by L. W. Fong and Kenneth Alibek, 273 pp, with illus, $99, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23684-8 Type and Scope of Book: This multiauthored review is from a monograph series on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Most of the authors are experts in the area and are employed in defense, with the federal government, or in biodefense. Recommended Readership: Although its stated readership is front-line health care providers, the book is more directed to infectious disease physicians, microbiologists, and public health leaders. Overall Grading: ### Robert Orenstein, DO, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Vascular Diagnosis, edited by M. Ashraf Mansour and Nicos Labropoulos, 573 pp, with illus, $139, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders (telephone: 800-545-2522), 2005, ISBN 0-72169426-8 Type and Scope of Book: A multiauthored review of noninvasive diagnostic techniques for vascular disease. Recommended Readership: Trainees or practitioners in the increasingly overlapping fields of vascular medicine, cardiology, vascular surgery, interventional radiology, and vascular technology. Grading Key Overall Grading: #### ★★★★★ = outstanding; ★★★★ = excellent; ★★★ = good; ★★ = fair; ★ = poor.
Ian R. McPhail, MD, Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Vascular/Interventional Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of© Medicine, Rochester,for Minn 2005 Mayo Foundation Medical Education and Research Mayo Clin Proc.
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Grading Key ★★★★★ = outstanding; ★★★★ = excellent; ★★★ = good; ★★ = fair; ★ = poor.
Expanded versions of these reviews and a list of books received can be found at www.mayoclinicproceedings.com. Click on Current Issue in the gray bar and scroll down the Table of Contents to Book Reviews.
Hypertension, edited by Matthew R. Weir, 259 pp, with illus, $42, Independence Mall West, Sixth Street at Race, Philadelphia, PA 19106, American College of Physicians (telephone: 800-523-1546), 2005, ISBN 1-930513-58-5 Type and Scope of Book: A focused multiauthored review of common clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. Recommended Readership: Trainees and practicing physicians involved in primary care medicine. Overall Grading: ### Gary L. Schwartz, MD, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Atlas of Sleep Medicine, edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty, Robert J. Thomas, and Meeta Bhatt, 362 pp, with illus, $95, Newton, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann (telephone: 800-5452522), 2005, ISBN 0-7506-7398-2 Type and Scope of Book: A comprehensive, multiauthored atlas of polysomnography and other techniques used in sleep medicine with clinical correlations, written at a specialist level. Recommended Readership: Sleep specialists, trainees in sleep medicine, polysomnographic technologists, and sleep centers. Overall Grading: #### Michael H. Silber, MB, ChB, Sleep Disorders Center and Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic Proceedings receives an average of 50 books each month complimentary from various publishers. Selected books are chosen for review, as space permits. All other books received will be listed on the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Web site (www.mayoclinicproceedings.com).
February 2006;81(2):269
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