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Test Bank Advanced Health Assessment & Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care 6th Edition
Dains
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom analysis................................................................2
Chapter 2. Evidence-based health screening ................................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 3. Abdomen ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 4: Affective Changes ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Chapter 5: Amenorrhea ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Chapter 6. Breasts lumps and nipple discharge ......................................................................................................................................................... 40
Chapter 7. Breast Pain ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
Chapter 8: Chest Pain .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
Chapter 9. Confusion in older adults ......................................................................................................................................................................... 52
Chapter 10: Constipation .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Chapter 11: Cough ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Chapter 12: Diarrhea .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
Chapter 13: Dizziness................................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
Chapter 14. Dyspnea ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 68
Chapter 15. Earache ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Chapter 16: Fatigue ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 83
Chapter 17. Fever ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 85
Chapter 18: Male Genitourinary Problems ................................................................................................................................................................ 88
Chapter 19. Headache ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 102
Chapter 20: Heartburn and indigestion ................................................................................................................................................................... 110
Chapter 21. Hoarseness ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 112
Chapter 22: Lower extremity limb pain .................................................................................................................................................................... 114
Chapter 23: Upper extremity limb pain .................................................................................................................................................................... 116
Chapter 24: Low back pain (acute) ............................................................................................................................................................................ 118
Chapter 25.: Nasal symptoms and sinus congestion............................................................................................................................................... 120
Chapter 26: Palpitations ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Chapter 27 Penile Discharge ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 127
Chapter 28 Rashes and skin lesions .......................................................................................................................................................................... 138
Chapter 29: Rectal pain, itching, and bleeding ....................................................................................................................................................... 148
Chapter 30. Red Eye .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 150
Chapter 31: Sleep Problems ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 161
Chapter 32. Sore throat ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 168
Chapter 33: Syncope .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 171
Chapter 34 Urinary Incontinence .............................................................................................................................................................................. 173
Chapter 35 Urinary Problems in females and children........................................................................................................................................... 180
Chapter 36. Vaginal Bleeding ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 183
Chapter 37. Vaginal Discharge and itching .............................................................................................................................................................. 186
Chapter 38: Vision Loss .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 203
Chapter 39: Weight loss/gain(unintentional)........................................................................................................................................................... 215
Chapter 40: The abdominal x-ray .............................................................................................................................................................................. 220
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Chapter 41: The chest x-ray........................................................................................................................................................................................ 228
Chapter 42. The Transgender Patient ....................................................................................................................................................................... 232
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Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, evidence-based practice, and symptom analysisMultiple
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 beable 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?
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A. Clinical practice guideline
B. Clinical decision rule
C. Clinical algorithm
MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS
1. ANS: B
Croskerry (2009) describes two major types of clinical diagnostic decision-making: intuitive andanalytical.
Intuitive decision- making (similar to Augenblink decision-making) is based on the experience and intuition
of the clinician and is less reliable andpaired with fairly common errors. In contrast, analytical decision-
making is based on careful consideration and has greater reliability with rare errors.
PTS: 1
2. ANS: D
To obtain adequate history, providers must be well organized, attentive to the patient’s verbal and
nonverbal language, and able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses to questions. Rather than
reading into the patient’s statements, they clarify any areas of uncertainty.
PTS: 1
3. ANS: C
Vital signs are part of the physical examination portion of patient assessment, not part of the health history.
PTS: 1
4. ANS: D
While performing the physical examination, the examiner must be able to differentiate betweennormal and
abnormal findings, recall knowledge of a range of conditions, including their associated signs and
symptoms, recognize how certain conditions affect the response to otherconditions, and distinguish the
relevance of varied abnormal findings.
PTS: 1
5. ANS: C
Sources for diagnostic statistics include textbooks, primary reports of research, and publishedmeta-
analyses. Another source of statistics, the one that has been most widely used and available for application
to the reasoning process, is the estimation based ona provider’s experience, although these are rarely
accurate. Over the past decade, the availability of evidence on which to base clinical reasoning is
improving, and there is an increasing expectation that clinical reasoning be based on scientific evidence.
Evidence-based statistics are also increasingly being used to develop resources to facilitate clinicaldecision-
making.
PTS: 1
6. ANS: D
To assist in clinical decision-making, a number of evidence-based resources have beendeveloped to
assist the clinician. Resources, such as algorithms and clinical practice guidelines, assist in clinical
reasoning when properly applied.
PTS: 1
7. ANS: A
The sensitivity of a diagnostic study is the percentage of individuals with the target condition who show an
abnormal, or positive, result. A high sensitivity indicates that a greater percentageof persons with the given
condition will have an abnormal result.
PTS: 1
8. ANS: B
The specificity of a diagnostic study is the percentage of normal, healthy individuals who havea normal
result. The greater the specificity, the greater the percentage of individuals who will have negative, or
normal, results if they do not have the target condition.
PTS: 1
9. ANS: A
The likelihood ratio is the probability that a positive test result will be associated with a person
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