Clinical thinking : evidence, communication and decision-making / Chris Del Mar, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Mar, Chris.

Contributor:

Doust, Jenny.

Glasziou, Paul, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical medicine--Decision making.

Clinical medicine.

Evidence-based medicine.

Patient Care Management--methods.

Evidence-Based Medicine--methods.

Decision Making.

Problem Solving.

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.

Communication.

Medical Subjects:

Patient Care Management--methods.

Evidence-Based Medicine--methods.

Decision Making.

Problem Solving.

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.

Communication.

Physical Description:

x, 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : BMJ Books/Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Summary:

Clinicians get 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 - all leaders in the evidence-based medicine movement. This book takes clinical medicine a big step forward in the direction of patient focused practice!

Contents:

Principles of clinical problem solving

Communication in clinical care

Models of disease

Diagnosis

Fine art of prognostication

Making clinical management decisions

Monitoring in chronic disease

Screening for disease, health promotion and disease prevention

Endpiece.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-121) and index.

ISBN:

0727917412

OCLC:

62759370

Publisher Number:

9780727917416