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Diagnostic reasoning is the mental process by which physicians turn information about the patient into the name of a disease. To do this, physicians must gather and evaluate evidence relevant to the clinical problem, and then choose a diagnosis or make a decision about management. As in detective work, with which diagnostic reasoning has many similarities, physicians have to reason from observed effects to their possible causes. This chapter explores the thinking behind diagnostic reasoning, drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the design of computer programs. If physicians have a deeper understanding of the reasoning that underpins making a diagnosis, they may be more astute diagnosticians, and better able to teach the skill to novices. And, however physicians arrive at a diagnosis, they need to be able to articulate their reasoning to the patient and their colleagues.
Title: Diagnostic reasoning
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Diagnostic reasoning is the mental process by which physicians turn information about the patient into the name of a disease.
To do this, physicians must gather and evaluate evidence relevant to the clinical problem, and then choose a diagnosis or make a decision about management.
As in detective work, with which diagnostic reasoning has many similarities, physicians have to reason from observed effects to their possible causes.
This chapter explores the thinking behind diagnostic reasoning, drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the design of computer programs.
If physicians have a deeper understanding of the reasoning that underpins making a diagnosis, they may be more astute diagnosticians, and better able to teach the skill to novices.
And, however physicians arrive at a diagnosis, they need to be able to articulate their reasoning to the patient and their colleagues.
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