Medicine & Health · Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

Clinical Reasoning

A topic within Internal Medicine & Diagnosis, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.

Reading on Clinical Reasoning

2 works

Paper2002

Clinical Problem Solving and Diagnostic Decision Making: Selective Review of the Cognitive Literature

Arthur S. Elstein & Alan Schwarz

Reviews decades of cognitive research on how clinicians actually reach diagnoses, arguing that experienced physicians rely on fast pattern recognition rather than exhaustive hypothesis testing, and that this shortcut is also where diagnostic error creeps in.

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Paper1968

Medical Records That Guide and Teach

Lawrence L. Weed

Argues that medical records organised by problem rather than by source of information force more disciplined clinical reasoning, and proposes the structure that became the problem-oriented medical record.

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