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Lippincott Williams Learning Clinical Reasoning 2nd Edition 2009 by Jerome P. Kassirer, John B. Wong
Learning Clinical Reasoning uses a case-based approach to teach students the basics of clinical reasoning. The first section explains the chief components of the clinical reasoning process, such as generating and refining diagnostic hypotheses, using and interpreting diagnostic tests, assembling a working diagnosis, therapeutic decision-making, and examining and applying evidence, and also includes a discussion of cognitive errors. The second section contains 69 cases in which clinicians "think out loud" about diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas, and the authors critique these clinicians' reasoning. This edition has thirty new cases from the New England Journal of Medicine and other sources and expanded discussions of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and cognitive errors. Part I: THE PROCESSES OF CLINICAL REASONING1: Overview2: Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation3: Refinement of Diagnostic Hypotheses4: Use and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests5: Causal Reasoning6: Diagnostic Verification7: Therapeutic Decision Making8: Examining Evidence9: Cognitive Errors10: Some Cognitive Concepts11: Learning Clinical Problem SolvingPart II: COGNITION AT THE BEDSIDE: A SET OF EXAMPLES12: Introduction to the Cases13: Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation14: Refinement of Diagnostic Hypotheses15: Use and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests16: Causal Reasoning17: Diagnostic Verification18: Therapeutic Decision Making19: Examining Evidence20: Cognitive Errors21: Some Cognitive Concepts22: Learning Clinical Problem Solving