TEST BANK FOR
ADVANCED
ASSESSMENT:
INTERPRETING FINDINGS
AND FORMULATING
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES
Verified 2023
,Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: Overview
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
5. other conditions
D. Foresee unpredictable findings
The following is the least reliable source of information for
diagnostic statistics:
A. Evidence-based investigations
B. Primary reports of research
6. C. Estimation based on a provider’s experience
D. Published meta-analyses
The following can be used to assist in sound clinical
decision-making:
A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article
7. B. Clinical practice guidelines
C. Evidence-based research
D. All of the above
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
cond
ition
D. None
of
the
abov
e
, If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
8. 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
9. an abnormal result
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
D. Clinical recommendation
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