Advanced Assessment Interpreting Findings
and Formulating Differential Diagnoses,
5th Edition, Mary Jo Goolsby, Laurie Grubbs
Chapter 1 - 23 | Complete
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I.The Art of Assessment and Clinical Decision Making
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1.The Art of Assessment and Clinical Decision Making
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2.Differential Studies pj
3.Genomic Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses
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II.Advanced Assessment and Differential Diagnosis by Body Regions and Systems
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4.Skin
5.Head, Face, and Neck
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6.The Eye
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7.Ear, Nose, Mouth, and Throat
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8.Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems
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9.Respiratory System pj
10.Breasts
11.Abdomen
12.Genitourinary System pj
13.Male Reproductive System
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14.Female Reproductive System
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15.Musculoskeletal System pj
16.Neurological System pj
17.Nonspecific Complaints pj
18.Psychiatric Mental Health pj pj
III.Assessments and Differential Diagnosis with Special Patient Populations
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19.Pediatric Patients pj
20.Pregnant Patients pj
21.Assessment of the Transgender or Gender Diverse Adult pj pj pj pj pj pj pj
22.Older Patients
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23.Persons with Disabilities
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Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: Overview
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Multiple Choice pj
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which t ype of clinical decision-making is most reliable?
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A. Intuitive
B. Analytical
C. Experiential
D. Augenblick
2. Which o f the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-care providers must be:
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A. Methodical and systematic pj pj
, B. Attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language
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C. Able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses
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D. Adept at reading into the patient’s statements
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3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
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A. Chief complaint pj
B. History of the present illness pj pj pj pj
C. Current vital signs pj pj
D. All o f the above are essential history components
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4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be ab
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le to:
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A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings pj pj pj pj pj
B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms
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C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions
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D. Foresee unpredictable findings pj pj
5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:
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A. Evidence-based investigations pj
B. Primary reports of research pj pj pj
C. Estimation based on a provider’s experience pj pj pj pj pj
D. Published meta-analyses pj
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
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A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article pj pj pj pj pj pj
B. Clinical practice guidelines pj pj
C. Evidence-based research pj
D. All of the above
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7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
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A. High percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
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B. Low percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
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C. Low likelihood of normal result in persons without a given condition
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D. None of the above pj pj pj
, 8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
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A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
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B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
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C. High percentage of individuals with a disorder will show a normal result
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D. Low percentage of individuals with a disorder will show an abnormal result
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9. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a diagnostic test showing a:
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A. Positive result is strongly associated with the disease
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B. Negative result is strongly associated with absence of the disease
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C. Positive result is weakly associated with the disease
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D. Negative result is weakly associated with absence of the disease
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based resource based on mathematical modeling to express the likelihood of a condition in select situ
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ations, settings, and/or patients?
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A. Clinical practice guideline pj pj pj
B. Clinical decision rule Clin pj pj pj
C. ical algorithm Clinical rec
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D. ommendation