Test Bank For Advanced Assessment Interpreting Findings 3rd Edition By Goolsby Grubbs
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 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 |
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