Arriving at an agreed-on and valid explanation for a clinical problem is important to patients
as well as to clinicians. Current theories of how clinicians arrive at diagnoses, such as the …

Background: Physicians attempting to make a diagnosis arrive at specific hypotheses early
in their encounter with patients. Further data are collected in the light of these early …

Substantial research has illuminated the clinical reasoning processes involved in diagnosis
(diagnostic reasoning). Far less is known about the processes entailed in patient …

Diagnostic reasoning has received substantial attention in the literature, yet what we mean
by “diagnosis” may vary. Diagnosis can align with assignment of a “label,” where a …

Background. While dichotomous tasks and related cognitive strategies have been
extensively researched in cognitive psychology, little is known about how primary care …

A central argument of Drs. Eta S. Berner and Mark L. Graber's review 1 is that feedback
processes are crucial to enhancing or inhibiting the quality of diagnostic problem solving …

Diagnostic failure results from misplaced dependence on the clinical judgments of expert
physicians. The remedy for diagnostic failure involves defining standards of care for …

Premature closure is often described as a significant contributor to diagnostic error.
Therefore, developing strategies to mitigate premature closure could reduce diagnostic …

This article describes reasoning strategies used by clinicians in different diagnostic
circumstances and how these modes of inquiry may allow further insight into the evaluation …

Recent studies of the clinical problem-solving process have demonstrated the importance of
hypothesis generation and testing in shaping the nature of information gathering, differ ential …