Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in
Primary Care 6th Edition
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Answer given at the end of each chapter 100%
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, Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
6th Edition Dains Test Bank
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom ana
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:
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, Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
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:
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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?
A Clinical practice
. guideline
B. Clinical decision
rule
C. Clinical algorithm
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom ana
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: B
Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decision-making: intuitive
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Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in
Primary Care 6th Edition
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Answer given at the end of each chapter 100%
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, Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care
6th Edition Dains Test Bank
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom ana
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:
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, Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
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:
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, Test Bank For Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition by Joyce E. Dains
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?
A Clinical practice
. guideline
B. Clinical decision
rule
C. Clinical algorithm
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom ana
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: B
Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decision-making: intuitive
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