Steven McGee > Quotes

“Of the many brief tests designed to identify patients at higher risk for falls, the best studied are “stops walking when talking” and “timed up-and-go” tests. In studies of these tests, the history of a prior fall during the previous year predicts another fall in the next 6 to 12 months, with a sensitivity of 20% to 62%, specificity of 71% to 93%, and positive LR of = 2.4.”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“In the 1830s, Professor Pierre Adolphe Piorry, the inventor of topographic percussion taught that there were nine distinct percussion sounds, which he used to outline the patient’s liver, heart, lungs, stomach, and even individual heart chambers or lung cavities.”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“The most important ones are body-mass index (BMI), skinfold thickness, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist circumference, and abdominal sagittal diameter.”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“Frontal gait disorder is an imprecise term describing a combination of findings seen in patients with cerebral tumors, subdural hematomas, dementing illness, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and multiple lacunar infarcts.”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“Pseudocyanosis may occur after exposure to metals (argyria from topical silver compounds; chrysiasis of gold therapy) or drugs (amiodarone, minocycline, chloroquine, or phenothiazines).”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“presence of a gait disturbance makes Alzheimer disease less likely (especially if the gait disturbance appears early during the patient’s course;”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“For example, the speed of an elderly person’s gait accurately predicts falls, future disability, and risk of institutionalization.”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book

“Many studies of BMI and mortality revealed a J-shaped relationship (i.e., both lean and overweight patients have increased mortality),”
― Steven McGee, Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis E-Book