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All Chapters Included
,Advanced Assessment Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses 4th Edition by Gools
Chapters 1 - 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An Overview
Chapter 2. Genomic Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating
Differential Diagnoses
Chapter 3. Skin
Chapter 4. Head, Face, and Neck
Chapter 5. The Eye
Chapter 6. Ear, Nose, Mouth, and Throat
Chapter 7. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems
Chapter 8. Respiratory System
Chapter 9. Breasts
Chapter 10. Abdomen
Chapter 11. Genitourinary System
Chapter 12. Male Reproductive System
Chapter 13. Female Reproductive System
Chapter 14. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 15. Neurological System
Chapter 16. Nonspecific Complaints
Chapter 17. Psychiatric Mental Health
Chapter 18. Pediatric Patients
Chapter 19. Pregnant Patients
Chapter 20. Assessment of the Transgender or Gender Diverse Adult
Chapter 21. Older Patients
Chapter 22. Persons With Disabilities
Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An 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. Analytica
l
C. Experient
ial
D. Augenblic
k
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
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed
journal article
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
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
All Chapters Included
,Advanced Assessment Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses 4th Edition by Gools
Chapters 1 - 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An Overview
Chapter 2. Genomic Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating
Differential Diagnoses
Chapter 3. Skin
Chapter 4. Head, Face, and Neck
Chapter 5. The Eye
Chapter 6. Ear, Nose, Mouth, and Throat
Chapter 7. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems
Chapter 8. Respiratory System
Chapter 9. Breasts
Chapter 10. Abdomen
Chapter 11. Genitourinary System
Chapter 12. Male Reproductive System
Chapter 13. Female Reproductive System
Chapter 14. Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 15. Neurological System
Chapter 16. Nonspecific Complaints
Chapter 17. Psychiatric Mental Health
Chapter 18. Pediatric Patients
Chapter 19. Pregnant Patients
Chapter 20. Assessment of the Transgender or Gender Diverse Adult
Chapter 21. Older Patients
Chapter 22. Persons With Disabilities
Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An 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. Analytica
l
C. Experient
ial
D. Augenblic
k
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
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed
journal article
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
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
