Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: OverviewMultiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable? 1. Intuitive 2. Analytical 3. Experiential 4. Augenblick 2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-careproviders must be: 1. Methodical and systematic 2. Attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language 1. Able to accurately interpre...

linical decision-making is often fraught with uncertainties. Pat Croskerry (2013) estimates that the diagnostic failure rate is as high as 15%. The “Augenblick diagnosis” is one made within “the blink of an eye” based on intuition, and it is a clinically dangerous state (p. 2445). While it works the majority of the time for experienced clinicians, it fails more often than we recognize. Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decisionmaking: intuitive and ana...

linical decision-making is often fraught with uncertainties. Pat Croskerry (2013) estimates that the diagnostic failure rate is as high as 15%. The “Augenblick diagnosis” is one made within “the blink of an eye” based on intuition, and it is a clinically dangerous state (p. 2445). While it works the majority of the time for experienced clinicians, it fails more often than we recognize. Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decisionmaking: intuitive and ana...

linical decision-making is often fraught with uncertainties. Pat Croskerry (2013) estimates that the diagnostic failure rate is as high as 15%. The “Augenblick diagnosis” is one made within “the blink of an eye” based on intuition, and it is a clinically dangerous state (p. 2445). While it works the majority of the time for experienced clinicians, it fails more often than we recognize. Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decisionmaking: intuitive and ana...