Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
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by Joyce E. Dains 5TH EDITION.
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,Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: Overview
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. Intuitive
B. Analytical
C. Experiential
D. Augenblick
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
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:
A. Evidence-based investigations
B. Primary reports of research
C. Estimation based on a provider’s
experience
D. Published meta-analyses
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6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
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evidence- based resource based on mathematical modeling to express the
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likelihood of a condition in select situations, settings, and/or patients?
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