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Teaching Clinical Decision Making

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1984
Clinical judgment has traditionally been left to be acquired chiefly through personal experience and conversations with experienced practitioners. Given the explosion of knowledge and technology of recent years, a more systematic approach to managing information has become increasingly important.
K R, Howe, M, Holmes, A S, Elstein
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Introduction to clinical decision making

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 1978
In the last few years there has been a remarkable increase in the amount of clinical data in the average hospital chart, and more and more problem-solving algorithms have been developed. We need better "thinking tools" to help us handle the flow of information.
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Clinical decision making in nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1991
In this paper, the author reflects on the new practitioner envisaged by developers of the Project 2000 curriculum in Scotland, and focuses on the need to develop critical thinking ability, in particular in relation to clincal decision making. Two approaches to decision making are outlined: the rationalist perspective and the phenomenological ...
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Nurses’ decision-making in clinical practice

Nursing Standard, 2005
To identify what decisions nurses make in medical, surgical and critical care areas and compare the results.A clinical decision-making questionnaire (CDMQ) consisting of 15 statements was developed. A total of 60 nurses completed the questionnaire: 20 from each of three clinical areas.Most nurses, in all specialties, regularly made clinical decisions ...
Bakalis, N.A., Watson, R.
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Clinical Judgment and Decision Making

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2005
When clinical psychologists make judgments, are they likely to be correct or incorrect? The following topics are reviewed: (a) methodological advances in evaluating the validity of descriptions of personality and psychopathology, (b) recent findings on the cognitive processes of clinicians, and (c) the validity of judgments and utility of decisions ...
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Basis for Clinical Decision Making

Chest, 1980
F or the physician evaluating patients who have had occupational exposure to asbestos, two issues having compensation and other legal ramifications, as well as health implications, are likely to arise. First involves the question regarding what action should be taken in the currently employed asbestosexposed worker with early but definite fibrogenic ...
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Clinical Coders and Decision Making

Health Information Management, 2004
Clinical coders operate at six identifiable levels, which can be described as beginner, trainee coder, entry, competent, accredited and advanced levels. In this article these levels are elaborated within the theoretical perspectives of Simon's four-stage and Wilson and Walsh's six-stage models of systematic decision making.
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Clinical Decision Making

Seminars in Speech and Language, 2019
The preconference, or postgraduate course, sessions of the 2018 meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society in Baltimore, MD, brought together experts from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, otolaryngology, gastroenterology, nutrition, speech pathology, and others, to address and discuss the science and clinical application of reasoning and ...
McCullough, Gary H., Rangarathnam, Balaji   +1 more
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Cost-effective clinical decision making

Pediatrics, 1977
Are pediatric preoperative chest x-ray examinations worth doing? Sane et al. (p. 669) conclude that they are "medically and economically justified and essential." To answer this question requires at least the following information. What is the cost of the examination (dollars, radiation exposure, cost of further testing and perhaps inappropriate ...
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Clinical decision-making

2020
Abstract Clinicians make decisions at every stage of the patient pathway. In routine practice complex decisions are often made rapidly using ‘intuition’ or common sense, but this can lead to suboptimal management plans. Clinical decision analysis is a way of formalizing the logical process behind decision-making, and when combined ...
Timothy E.A. Peto, Philippa Peto
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