Test Bank-Advanced Assessment
Interpreting Findings and Formulating
Differential Diagnoses
5th Edition
by Laurie Goolsby & Mary Jo; Grubbs
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Table of Contents
I. The Art of Assessment and Clinical Decision Making
1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An Overview
2. Genomic Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses
II. Advanced Assessment and Differential Diagnosis by Body Regions and Systems
3. Skin
4. Head, Face, and Neck
5. Eye
6. Ear, Nose, Throat y
7. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems
8. Respiratory System
9. Breasts
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10. Abdomen
11. Genitourinary System
12. Male Reproductive System
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13. Female Reproductive System M
14. Musculoskeletal System
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15. Neurological System
16. Nonspecific Complaints
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17. Psychiatric Mental Health
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III. Assessments and Differential Diagnosis in Special Patient Populations
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18. Pediatric Patients
19. Pregnant Patients
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20. Assessment of the Transgender or Gender Diverse Adult NEW!
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21. Older Patients
22. Persons with Disabilities
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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
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2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-care providers must be:
A. Methodical and systematic
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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
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3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
A. Chief complaint
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B. History of the present illness
C. Current vital signs
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D. All of 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 able
to:
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A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings
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
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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
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
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C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
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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
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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
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D. None of the above
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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
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:
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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