Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-MakingClinicians are taught masses of facts, but not how to use them in the messy reality of patient care. This book provides a missing link between evidence and the clinical coalface. Though there are plenty of guides to evidence-based medicine, few explain how to build the information into patient oriented decision-making. Clinical Thinking allows you to think both logically and laterally about daily clinical issues and look at problems from different angles.
This book takes clinical medicine a big step forward in the direction of patient-focused practice! |
Contents
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 1 Principles of clinical problem solving | 1 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 2 Communication in clinical care | 12 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 3 Models of disease | 27 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 4 Diagnosis | 38 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 5 Fine art of prognostication | 58 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 6 Making clinical management decisions | 71 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 7 Monitoring in chronic disease | 84 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 8 Screening for disease health promotion and disease prevention | 99 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking Chapter 9 Endpiece | 114 |
Evidence Communication and DecisionMaking References | 115 |
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Other editions - View all
Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-Making Chris Del Mar,Jenny Doust,Paul P. Glasziou No preview available - 2008 |
Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-Making Chris Del Mar,Jenny Doust,Paul P. Glasziou No preview available - 2006 |
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