Understanding context specificity: the effect of contextual factors on clinical reasoning
Abstract
Situated cognition theory argues that thinking is inextricably situated in a context. In clinical reasoning, this can lead to context specificity: a physician arriving at two different diagnoses for two patients with the same symptoms, findings, and diagnosis but different contextual factors (something beyond case content potentially influencing reasoning). This paper experimentally investigates the presence of and mechanisms behind context specificity by measuring differences in clinical reasoning performance in cases with and without contextual factors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 02, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1515/dx-2020-0016
Entities
People
- Abigail Konopasky
- Alexis Battista
- Anthony R. Artino
- Dario Torre
- Divya Ramani
- Elexis Mcbee
- Jeroen Van Merrienboer
- Megan Ohmer
- Paul A. Hemmer
- Pim W Teunissen
- Steven J. Durning
- Temple Ratcliffe
Organizations
- George Washington University
- Maastricht University
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio