ABC of Clinical Reasoning (eBook)

Nicola Cooper, John Frain (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2016 | 1. Auflage
64 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-05910-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Being a good clinician is not just about knowledge - how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. While medical schools and postgraduate training programmes teach and assess the knowledge and skills required to practice as a doctor, few offer comprehensive training in clinical reasoning or decision making. This is important because studies suggest that diagnostic error is common and results in significant harm to patients - and errors in reasoning account for the majority of diagnostic errors.

The ABC of Clinical Reasoning covers core elements of the thinking and decision making associated with clinical practice - from what clinical reasoning is, what it involves and how to teach it. Informed by the latest advances in cognitive psychology, education and studies of expertise, the ABC covers:

* Evidence-based history and examination

* Use and interpretation of diagnostic tests

* How doctors think - models of clinical reasoning

* Cognitive and affective biases

* Metacognition and cognitive de-biasing strategies

* Patient-centred evidence based medicine

* Teaching clinical reasoning

From an international team of authors, the ABC of Clinical Reasoning is essential reading for all students, medical professionals and other clinicians involved in diagnosis, in order to improve their decision-making skills and provide better patient care.

Autor

Nicola Cooper is Consultant Physician and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK John Frain is General Practitioner and Director of Clinical Skills, Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK

Inhalt

Contributors, vi

Preface, vii

1 Clinical Reasoning: An Overview, 1
Nicola Cooper and John Frain

2 Evidence-Based History and Examination, 6
Steven McGee and John Frain

3 Using and Interpreting Diagnostic Tests, 12
Nicola Cooper

4 Models of Clinical Reasoning, 17
Martin Hughes and Graham Nimmo

5 Cognitive Biases, 22
Nicola Cooper

6 Human Factors, 27
Nicola Cooper

7 Metacognition and Cognitive Debiasing, 33
Pat Croskerry

8 Using Guidelines, Scores and Decision Aids, 39
Maggie Bartlett and Simon Gay

9 Teaching Clinical Reasoning, 44
Nicola Cooper, Ana L. Da Silva and Sian Powell

Recommended Books, Articles and Websites, 51

Index, 53

Rezensionen

"Sound decision making is routinely cited as
a cornerstone of clinical practice. But what
techniques actually underlie this process,
and why does it ? all too often ? go wrong?
The answers to these questions, and more,
are provided by the authors of this book,
who have successfully compressed the
burgeoning subject of clinical reasoning into
a succinct and easily accessible textbook...

The text attempts to cover a lot of ground
for such a slim volume and occasional
sections seem a little cramped. The overall
effect, though, is to enthusiastically and
intelligently convey the importance of a so far
underappreciated yet vital aspect of clinical
practice.

Readers should not expect this text to
provide a complete summary of the subject
(a comprehensive bibliography is supplied).
Nor should they expect a single reading to
provide an instant remedy to deficiencies
in their own decision making because, as
the editors state, developing sound clinical
reasoning is a ?lifelong? task. With that in
mind, picking up this book would make an
excellent start."(BJGP Open, 24th February 2017)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: ABC Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin
• Schlagworte: Allgemeine u. Innere Medizin • Allgemeinpraxis, hausärztliche Praxis • Allgemeinpraxis, hausärztliche Praxis • Clinical Reasoning • Evidence-based Health Care • Evidenzbasierte Forschung im Gesundheitswesen • General & Internal Medicine • General Practice/Family Practice • Medical Science • Medizin
• ISBN-10: 1-119-05910-0 / 1119059100
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-05910-3 / 9781119059103