, TEST BANK FOR ADVANCED
ASSESSMENT: INTERPRETING FINDINGS
AND FORMULATING DIFFERENTIAL
DIAGNOSES
,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
m
er as
____ 3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
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A. Chief complaint
eH w
B. History of the present illness
o.
C. Current vital signs
rs e
D. All of the above are essential history components
ou urc
____ 4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be
able to:
o
A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings
B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms
aC s
C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions
vi y re
D. Foresee unpredictable findings
____ 5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:
A. Evidence-based investigations
ed d
B. Primary reports of research
ar stu
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:
is
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
Th
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
sh
____ 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
D. None of the above
, ____ 8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
C. High percentage of individuals with a disorder will show a normal result
D. Low percentage of individuals with a disorder will show an abnormal result
____ 9. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a diagnostic test showing a:
A. Positive result is strongly associated with the disease
B. Negative result is strongly associated with absence of the disease
C. Positive result is weakly associated with the disease
D. Negative result is weakly associated with absence of the disease
____ 10. Which of the following clinical reasoning tools is defined as evidence-based resource based on
mathematical modeling to express the likelihood of a condition in select situations, settings, and/or
patients?
A. Clinical practice guideline
m
B. Clinical decision rule
er as
C. Clinical algorithm
co
D. Clinical recommendation
eH w
o.
rs e
ou urc
o
aC s
vi y re
ed d
ar stu
is
Th
sh
ASSESSMENT: INTERPRETING FINDINGS
AND FORMULATING DIFFERENTIAL
DIAGNOSES
,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
m
er as
____ 3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
co
A. Chief complaint
eH w
B. History of the present illness
o.
C. Current vital signs
rs e
D. All of the above are essential history components
ou urc
____ 4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be
able to:
o
A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings
B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms
aC s
C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions
vi y re
D. Foresee unpredictable findings
____ 5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:
A. Evidence-based investigations
ed d
B. Primary reports of research
ar stu
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:
is
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
Th
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
sh
____ 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
D. None of the above
, ____ 8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
C. High percentage of individuals with a disorder will show a normal result
D. Low percentage of individuals with a disorder will show an abnormal result
____ 9. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a diagnostic test showing a:
A. Positive result is strongly associated with the disease
B. Negative result is strongly associated with absence of the disease
C. Positive result is weakly associated with the disease
D. Negative result is weakly associated with absence of the disease
____ 10. Which of the following clinical reasoning tools is defined as evidence-based resource based on
mathematical modeling to express the likelihood of a condition in select situations, settings, and/or
patients?
A. Clinical practice guideline
m
B. Clinical decision rule
er as
C. Clinical algorithm
co
D. Clinical recommendation
eH w
o.
rs e
ou urc
o
aC s
vi y re
ed d
ar stu
is
Th
sh
