Clinical Decision Making 2

What is clinical decision making?

• A physical process concerned with problem recognition through the identification of cues of relevant clinical features

• A cognitive process concerned with problem recognition through the identification of cues of relevant clinical features

• A process concerned with problem recognition through the identification of irrelevant clinical features

• A process concerned with problem recognition through the identification of irrelevant clinical features

What are the main areas covered by clinical decisions?

• Diagnosis, treatment, and referrals

• Monitoring, treatment, and referrals

• Diagnosis, monitoring, and interventions

• Diagnosis, monitoring, and follow-ups

What is the first stage of the decision-making process?

• Intervention

• Assessment

• Monitoring

• Diagnosis

What is the objective of clinical decision making to prevent or cure a disease?

• Slowing the disease's progress

• Preventing the disease's complications

• Diminishing the consequences of a disease

• Alleviating symptoms or dysfunction

What is the property of clinical decision making that involves identifying small factors and fitting them together?

• Connectivity

• Intuitiveness

• Continuity

• Uncertainty

What is a way to establish thresholds for initiating a particular treatment?

• Intervention thresholds

• Diagnostic thresholds

• Treatment thresholds

• Preventive thresholds

What is the limitation of clinical decision making related to the tendency to fall back on lower-level decision-making rules?

• Satisfaction of the search

• Diagnosis momentum

• Intuitive leaps

• Patterns of recognition

What is the process of confirming or rejecting a hypothesis in clinical decision making?

• Data processing

• Problem development

• Hypothesis analysis

• Confirmation review

What are clinical decision support systems (CDSS) used for?

• Helping clinicians make decisions

• Collecting patient payments

• Managing hospital inventory

• Training medical students

What is the key data-gathering strategy of the assessment process in clinical decision making?

• Asking, listening, filtering, and interpreting data

• Reading, writing, speaking, and interpreting data

• Observing, tasting, smelling, and interpreting data

• Touching, hearing, seeing, and interpreting data