TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diagnostic Reasoning and Decision Making A1 - Beer, Laurence A1 - Golub, Lucas A1 - Smith, Dustin T. A2 - McKean, Sylvia C. A2 - Ross, John J. A2 - Dressler, Daniel D. A2 - Scheurer, Danielle B. PY - 2017 T2 - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Diagnosis is the art of identifying a disease by the signs, symptoms, and test results of a patient. Diagnosis stems from the Greek word, diagignoskein, which means to distinguish or discern. Indeed, the ability to distinguish or discern a patient’s underlying illness is critical to being an effective clinician as a hospital medicine provider. In many cases, hospitalized patients may be quite complicated with multiple competing possible reasons to explain their underlying signs or symptoms. Patients do not always read textbook (ie, they may not always describe their symptoms or have findings on exam that are pathognomonic or as classically described). Therefore, diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic decision making are crucial skills for hospital medicine providers. In addition, cognitive biases exist and diagnostic errors occur when there is any mistake or failure in the diagnostic process that leads to a misdiagnosis, a missed diagnosis, or a delayed diagnosis. This chapter will discuss diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic decision making. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137605362 ER -