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Clinical Reasoning Skills

Clinical Reasoning Skills. STEPP Course ST1;2011 Peter Macfarlane. intellectual process; leading to a ‘working diagnosis’ & management- discussion some puzzles. sound medical principle;.. ‘diagnosis precedes treatment’.. ...right diagnosis...right treatment

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Clinical Reasoning Skills

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  1. Clinical Reasoning Skills STEPP Course ST1;2011 Peter Macfarlane

  2. intellectual process; leading to a ‘working diagnosis’ & management- discussion • some puzzles

  3. sound medical principle;.. ‘diagnosis precedes treatment’.. • ...right diagnosis...right treatment • ...no diagnosis/wrong diagnosis;..! • APLS/emergency approach vs • classical history/examination/formulation/?Ix/progress

  4. Hx /Ex ...the medical student approach, exhaustive data..but no idea what it means!) • then; hypothesis/analytical/deductive approach • mental shortcuts (heuristics) • then iterative diagnosis approach...’I know what’s going on here; ...series of closed questions to check this....

  5. pattern recognition; ‘ducks’ quick: like recognizing a friend slower: patterns/clusters • Stepwise ‘rule outs’; used to exclude ‘don’t miss’ diagnoses • probabilistic reasoning; ‘zebras’ ‘informal’; e.g. -age -duration illness -’red flags’

  6. ‘formal’ probabilistic reasoning the Bayesian approach • Sensitivity • Specificity • Positive predictive value • Negative predictive value • know the 2X2 table

  7. SpP IN : • SnN OUT :

  8. SpP IN : test(or Sx/Sg) with high Specificity performance, Positive result is a good ‘rule IN’ • SnN OUT : test (or Sx/Sg) with high Sensitivity performance, Negative result is a good ‘rule OUT’ • #

  9. investigations...beware of pitfalls. -’paralysis by analysis’ - treat the child not the numbers -always question whether you know what the test result means (values,pos,neg), before you start. -’sometimes the best thing to do for the patient (child) is to spare them the misery of a useless intervention’

  10. keep it simple; Occam’s Razor (1 diagnosis), but learn how to juggle complex multiple problems.. • Test of treatment • Test of time, beware pressure to act.... • ‘don’t just do something, stand there!’ • if no diagnosis- keep an open mind, think aloud and get advice (foster ethos of 2nd opinion) • abandon the ‘diagnosis’ when things don’t go to plan • When the diagnosis is ‘obvious’ ; avoid premature closure; always ask ‘what else could this be?’ ..........think beyond the obvious; avoid the cognitive trap • recognize your own biases • #

  11. Test of Treatment • ‘first do no harm’, Test of Treatment rarely leads to robust diagnosis; nearly always better to use ‘test of time’ (except in critical illness). • lots of confounders....

  12. ‘treatment’ trial apparent effect uncertain no apparent effect or worse ? TP FP TN FN

  13. trial of treatment confounders • False positives • placebo • spontaneous improvement/remission • natural fluctuation in disease process • False negatives • side effects • wrong drug/dose/duration • natural fluctuation in disease process • drug resistant disease variant

  14. ways to improve test of treatment • establish the baseline • agree the end point • objective measurement if possible; if not reduce ‘subjectivity’ • keep everything else the same • careful thought about drug selection, dose route, duration • Use the ‘3 step protocol’; multiple trials of n=1 • #

  15. Questions?

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