Clinical judgement: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Built environment assessment: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Context As obesity has become increasingly widespread, scientists seek better ways to assess and modify built and social environments to positively impact health. The applicable methods and concepts draw on multiple disciplines and require collaboration and cross-learning. This paper describes the results of an expert team׳s analysis of how key disciplinary perspectives contribute to environmen...

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Affective Experiences

artworks that deconstruct and resist identification but carry rather a forceful, often transformative encounter. That encounter is argued to produce strong non-cognitive, corporeal processes or states of affect (Massumi, 1987). Discussions also lied on theoretical models and ideas deploying the conception of affect, introduced the idea of experience in the context of analysing texts of literatu...

Treatment bias and clinical judgement.

Appendicitis : Clinical judgement and operative findings

Introduction Appendicitis is the most common intraabdominal disorder that requires emergency surgery, with a 6% lifetime risk. At the end of 20th Century, appendicitis still remains a clinical entity and an ongoing diagnostic dilemma as the presentation may be atypical. Recent literature reports rates of normal appendix removal ranging from 9% to 40%. These results are not different from earlie...

Clinical judgement and the medical profession

OBJECTIVES Clinical judgment is a central element of the medical profession, essential for the performance of the doctor, and potentially generating information also for other clinicians and for scientists and health care managers. The recently renewed interest in clinical judgement is primarily engaged with its role in communication, diagnosis and decision making. Beyond this issue, the presen...