ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT & CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE, 6TH
EDITION JOYCE E. DAINS, LINDA CIOFU BAUMANN & PAMELA SCHEIBEL
TEST BANK ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT & CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS INPRIMARY
CARE, 6TH EDITION JOYCE E. DAINS, LINDA CIOFU BAUMANN & PAMELA SCHEIBEL
ALL CHAPTERS COVERED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ LATEST UPDATE.
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ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: An Introduction to Clinical Reasoning
1. Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice, and
Symptom Analysis
2. Evidence-Based Health Screening
Part II: Common Symptoms in Primary Care
3. Abdominal Pain
4. Affective Changes
5. Amenorrhea
6. Breast Lumps and Nipple Discharge
7. Breast Pain
8. Chest Pain
9. Confusion in Older Adults
10. Constipation
11. Cough
12. Diarrhea
13. Dizziness
14. Dyspneal
15. Earache
16. Fatigue
17. Fever
18. Genitourinary Problems in Males
19. Headache
20. Heartburn and Indigestion
21. Hoarseness
22. Lower Extremity Limb Pain
23. Upper Extremity Limb Pain
24. Low Back Pain (Acute)
25. Nasal Symptoms and Sinus Congestion
26. Palpitations
27. Penile Discharge
28. Rashes and Skin Lesions
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29. Rectal Pain, Itching, and Bleeding
30. Red Eye
31. Sleep Problems
32. Sore Throat
33. Syncope
34. Urinary Incontinence
35. Urinary Problems in Females and Children
36. Vaginal Bleeding
37. Vaginal Discharge and Itching
38. Vision Loss
39. Weight Loss/Gain (Unintentional)
Part III: Diagnostic Imaging
40. The Abdominal X-Ray
41. The Chest X-Ray
Part IV: Special Considerations
42. The Transgender Patient
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Test Bank for Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
6th Edition Dains
Chapter 1: Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable?
A. Intuitive
B. Analytical
C. Experiential
D. Augenblick
2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-care providers must be:
A. Methodical and systematic
B. Attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language
C. Able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses
D. Adept at reading into the patient’s statements
3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
A. Chief complaint
B. History of the present illness
C. Current vital signs
D. All of the above are essential history components
4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be able to:
A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings
B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms
C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions
D. Foresee unpredictable findings
5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:
A. Evidence-based investigations
B. Primary reports of research
C. Estimation based on a provider’s experience
D. Published meta-analyses
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
A. High percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
B. Low percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
C. Low likelihood of normal result in persons without a given condition
D. None of the above
8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
C. High percentage of individuals with a disorder will show a normal result
D. Low percentage of individuals with a disorder will show an abnormal result
9. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a diagnostic test showing a:
A. Positive result is strongly associated with the disease
B. Negative result is strongly associated with absence of the disease
C. Positive result is weakly associated with the disease
D. Negative result is weakly associated with absence of the disease
10. Which of the following clinical reasoning tools is defined as evidence-based resource based on mathematical modeling
to express the likelihood of a condition in select situations, settings, and/or patients?
EDITION JOYCE E. DAINS, LINDA CIOFU BAUMANN & PAMELA SCHEIBEL
TEST BANK ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT & CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS INPRIMARY
CARE, 6TH EDITION JOYCE E. DAINS, LINDA CIOFU BAUMANN & PAMELA SCHEIBEL
ALL CHAPTERS COVERED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ LATEST UPDATE.
, lOM oARcP SD|126 567 13
ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: An Introduction to Clinical Reasoning
1. Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice, and
Symptom Analysis
2. Evidence-Based Health Screening
Part II: Common Symptoms in Primary Care
3. Abdominal Pain
4. Affective Changes
5. Amenorrhea
6. Breast Lumps and Nipple Discharge
7. Breast Pain
8. Chest Pain
9. Confusion in Older Adults
10. Constipation
11. Cough
12. Diarrhea
13. Dizziness
14. Dyspneal
15. Earache
16. Fatigue
17. Fever
18. Genitourinary Problems in Males
19. Headache
20. Heartburn and Indigestion
21. Hoarseness
22. Lower Extremity Limb Pain
23. Upper Extremity Limb Pain
24. Low Back Pain (Acute)
25. Nasal Symptoms and Sinus Congestion
26. Palpitations
27. Penile Discharge
28. Rashes and Skin Lesions
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29. Rectal Pain, Itching, and Bleeding
30. Red Eye
31. Sleep Problems
32. Sore Throat
33. Syncope
34. Urinary Incontinence
35. Urinary Problems in Females and Children
36. Vaginal Bleeding
37. Vaginal Discharge and Itching
38. Vision Loss
39. Weight Loss/Gain (Unintentional)
Part III: Diagnostic Imaging
40. The Abdominal X-Ray
41. The Chest X-Ray
Part IV: Special Considerations
42. The Transgender Patient
, lOM oARcP SD|126 567 13
Test Bank for Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
6th Edition Dains
Chapter 1: Clinical Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice, and Symptom Analysis
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable?
A. Intuitive
B. Analytical
C. Experiential
D. Augenblick
2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-care providers must be:
A. Methodical and systematic
B. Attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language
C. Able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses
D. Adept at reading into the patient’s statements
3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
A. Chief complaint
B. History of the present illness
C. Current vital signs
D. All of the above are essential history components
4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be able to:
A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings
B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms
C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions
D. Foresee unpredictable findings
5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:
A. Evidence-based investigations
B. Primary reports of research
C. Estimation based on a provider’s experience
D. Published meta-analyses
6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
A. High percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
B. Low percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result
C. Low likelihood of normal result in persons without a given condition
D. None of the above
8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
C. High percentage of individuals with a disorder will show a normal result
D. Low percentage of individuals with a disorder will show an abnormal result
9. A likelihood ratio above 1 indicates that a diagnostic test showing a:
A. Positive result is strongly associated with the disease
B. Negative result is strongly associated with absence of the disease
C. Positive result is weakly associated with the disease
D. Negative result is weakly associated with absence of the disease
10. Which of the following clinical reasoning tools is defined as evidence-based resource based on mathematical modeling
to express the likelihood of a condition in select situations, settings, and/or patients?
