Examining the patterns of uncertainty across clinical reasoning tasks: effects of contextual factors on the clinical reasoning process
Abstract
Uncertainty is common in clinical reasoning given the dynamic processes required to come to a diagnosis. Though some uncertainty is expected during clinical encounters, it can have detrimental effects on clinical reasoning. Likewise, evidence has established the potentially detrimental effects of the presence of distracting contextual factors (i.e., factors other than case content needed to establish a diagnosis) in a clinical encounter on clinical reasoning. The purpose of this study was to examine how linguistic markers of uncertainty overlap with different clinical reasoning tasks and how distracting contextual factors might affect physicians’ clinical reasoning process.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1515/dx-2020-0019
Entities
People
- Abigail Konopasky
- Alexis Battista
- Divya Ramani
- Elexis Mcbee
- Jerusalem Merkebu
- Michael Soh
- Steven J. Durning
- Temple Ratcliffe
Organizations
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio