Make the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in the least time!
A best seller for over 25 years, The5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018 is a practical and useful resource for clinicians in primary care, family medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, and pediatrics. It provides rapid access to guidance on diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 540 diseases and conditions. The5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018 is designed to deliver maximum clinical confidence as efficiently as possible...allowing you to focus your valuable time on giving your patients the best possible care.

Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive, at-a-glance format, with concise, bulleted text; hundreds of diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms; ICD-10 codes, DSM-5 criteria; and much more.



Make confident decisions aided by current evidence-based designations in each topic.

Written by esteemed internal medicine and family medicine practitioners and published by the leading publisher in medical content, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018, 26th Edition includes a Free Trial to 5MinuteConsult.com.

5MinuteConsult.com is a quicker, more valuable, evidence-based, online workflow tool easily integrated at the point of care. 5MinuteConsult.com provides online-exclusive content, including:


More than 1,500 additional topics, including the full contents of The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult and Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult
Differential diagnosis support from an expanded collection of algorithms
Current evidence-based designations highlighted in each topic
Thousands of images to help support visual diagnosis of all conditions
A video library of procedures, treatment, and physical therapy techniques
An A-to-Z Drug Database from Facts & Comparisons (R)
Guidance on laboratory test interpretation from Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
More than 3,000 patient handouts in English and Spanish
ICD-10 codes and DSM-5 criteria
FREE point-of-care CME and CE: 0.5 credits each time you search the site to find the best treatment for your patients. This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20 prescribed credits by the AAFP and the ANCC.


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Associate editor: Robert A. Baldor, Jeremy Golding, Mark B. Stephens