TEST BANK
ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT &
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE,
6TH EDITION
Joyce E. Dains, Linda Ciofu Baumann & Pamela
Scheibel
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Test Bank for Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis
in Primary Care 6th Edition Dains
Chapter 1: Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-
Based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable?
A Intui
. tive
B Anal
. ytical
C Expe
. rienti
al
D Auge
. nblic
k
2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history,
health-care providers must be:
A Methodical and
. systematic
B Attentive to the patient’s
. verbal and nonverbal
language
C Able to accurately
. interpret the patient’s
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responses
D Adept at reading into the
. patient’s statements
3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the
following except:
A Chief complaint
.
B History of the present
. illness
C Current vital signs
.
D All of the above are
. essential history
components
4. Which of the following is false? While performing the
physical examination, the examiner must be able to:
A Differentiate between normal and
. abnormal findings
B Recall knowledge of a range of
. conditions and their associated signs
and symptoms
C Recognize how certain conditions
. affect the response to other
conditions
D Foresee unpredictable findings
.
5. The following is the least reliable source of information for
diagnostic statistics:
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A Evidence-based
. investigations
B Primary reports of
. research
C Estimation based
. on a provider’s
experience
D Published meta-
. analyses
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical
decision-making:
A Algorithm published in
. a peer-reviewed journal
article
B Clinical practice
. guidelines
C Evidence-based research
.
D All of the above
.
7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
A High percentage of persons with the
. given condition will have an
abnormal result
B Low percentage of persons with the
. given condition will have an
abnormal result
C Low likelihood of normal result in
. persons without a given condition
ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT &
CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE,
6TH EDITION
Joyce E. Dains, Linda Ciofu Baumann & Pamela
Scheibel
, lOMoARcPSD|126 567 13
Test Bank for Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis
in Primary Care 6th Edition Dains
Chapter 1: Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-
Based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable?
A Intui
. tive
B Anal
. ytical
C Expe
. rienti
al
D Auge
. nblic
k
2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history,
health-care providers must be:
A Methodical and
. systematic
B Attentive to the patient’s
. verbal and nonverbal
language
C Able to accurately
. interpret the patient’s
, lOMoARcPSD|126 567 13
responses
D Adept at reading into the
. patient’s statements
3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the
following except:
A Chief complaint
.
B History of the present
. illness
C Current vital signs
.
D All of the above are
. essential history
components
4. Which of the following is false? While performing the
physical examination, the examiner must be able to:
A Differentiate between normal and
. abnormal findings
B Recall knowledge of a range of
. conditions and their associated signs
and symptoms
C Recognize how certain conditions
. affect the response to other
conditions
D Foresee unpredictable findings
.
5. The following is the least reliable source of information for
diagnostic statistics:
, lOMoARcPSD|126 567 13
A Evidence-based
. investigations
B Primary reports of
. research
C Estimation based
. on a provider’s
experience
D Published meta-
. analyses
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical
decision-making:
A Algorithm published in
. a peer-reviewed journal
article
B Clinical practice
. guidelines
C Evidence-based research
.
D All of the above
.
7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
A High percentage of persons with the
. given condition will have an
abnormal result
B Low percentage of persons with the
. given condition will have an
abnormal result
C Low likelihood of normal result in
. persons without a given condition
