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A. Intuitive
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C. Able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses
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Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decision-making: intuitive and analytical. Intuitive
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decision-making (similar to Augenblink decision-making) is based on the experience and intuition of the clinician and is
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less reliable and paired with fairly common errors. In contrast, analytical decision-making is based on careful
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consideration and has greater reliability with rare errors.
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To obtain adequate history, providers must be well organized, attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language, and
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Vital signs are part of the physical examination portion of patient assessment, not part of the health history.
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Sources for diagnostic statistics include textbooks, primary reports of research, and published meta-analyses. Another
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source of statistics, the one that has been most widely used and available for application to the reasoning process, is the
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evidence on which to base clinical reasoning is improving, and there is an increasing expectation that clinical reasoning
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The likelihood ratio is the probability that a positive test result will be associated with a person who has the target
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condition and a negative result will be associated with a healthy person. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a
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