Clinicians 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.
- Uses realistic scenarios, frameworks and models
- Takes you through the whole decision-making process, from observation and narrative to evaluating the best evidence for the individual situation
- Illustrations and flow charts help clarify this new approach
- These methods have been tried and tested by the authors, internationally respected general practitioners and teachers in primary care β all leaders in the evidence-based medicine movement
This book takes clinical medicine a big step forward in the direction of patient-focused practice!Content:
Chapter 1 Principles of Clinical Problem Solving (pages 1β11):
Chapter 2 Communication in Clinical Care (pages 12β26):
Chapter 3 Models of Disease (pages 27β37):
Chapter 4 Diagnosis (pages 38β57):
Chapter 5 Fine Art of Prognostication (pages 58β70):
Chapter 6 Making Clinical Management Decisions (pages 71β83):
Chapter 7 Monitoring in Chronic Disease (pages 84β98):
Chapter 8 Screening for Disease, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (pages 99β122):
Chapter 9 Endpiece (pages 115β122):