Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses
4th Edition Goolsby Chapters 1 - 22 | Complete
, 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. 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 hphysical hexamination, hthe hexaminer hmust hbe hable hto:
A. Differentiate hbetween hnormal hand habnormal hfindings
B. Recall hknowledge hof ha hrange hof hconditions hand htheir hassociated hsigns hand
hsymptoms
C. Recognize hhow hcertain hconditions haffect hthe hresponse hto hother hconditions
D. Foresee hunpredictable hfindings
h 5. The hfollowing his hthe hleast hreliable hsource hof hinformation hfor hdiagnostic hstatistics:
A. Evidence-based hinvestigations
B. Primary hreports hof hresearch
C. Estimation hbased hon ha hprovider’s
hexperience
D. Published hmeta-analyses
h 6. The hfollowing hcan hbe hused hto hassist hin hsound hclinical hdecision-making:
A. Algorithm hpublished hin ha hpeer-reviewed hjournal
harticle
B. Clinical hpractice hguidelines
C. Evidence-based hresearch
D. All hof hthe habove
h 7. If ha hdiagnostic hstudy hhas hhigh hsensitivity, h this hindicates ha:
A. High hpercentage hof hpersons hwith hthe hgiven hcondition hwill hhave han
habnormal hresult
B. Low hpercentage hof hpersons hwith hthe hgiven hcondition hwill hhave han
habnormal hresult
C. Low hlikelihood hof hnormal hresult hin hpersons hwithout ha hgiven hcondition
D. None hof hthe habove
h 8. If ha hdiagnostic hstudy hhas hhigh hspecificity, h this hindicates ha:
A. Low hpercentage hof hhealthy hindividuals hwill hshow ha hnormal hresult
B. High hpercentage hof hhealthy hindividuals hwill hshow ha hnormal hresult
C. High hpercentage hof hindividuals hwith ha hdisorder hwill hshow ha hnormal
hresult
D. Low hpercentage hof hindividuals hwith ha hdisorder hwill hshow han
habnormal hresult
h 9. A hlikelihood hratio habove h1 hindicates hthat ha hdiagnostic htest hshowing ha:
A. Positive hresult his hstrongly hassociated hwith hthe hdisease
B. Negative hresult his hstrongly hassociated hwith habsence hof hthe
hdisease
C. Positive hresult his hweakly hassociated hwith hthe hdisease
D. Negative hresult his hweakly hassociated hwith habsence hof hthe
hdisease
, h 10. Which hof hthe hfollowing hclinical hreasoning htools his hdefined has hevidence-based hresource hbased hon hmathematical hmodeling
to hexpress hthe hlikelihood hof ha hcondition hin hselect hsituations, hsettings, hand/or hpatients?