American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Medical Guidelines for Clinical Practice are systematically developed statements to assist health-care professionals in medical decision making for specific clinical conditions. Most of the content herein is based on literature reviews. In areas of uncertainty, professional judgment was applied. These guidelines are a working document that refle...

BACKGROUND This pilot study describes an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) developed using Human Patient Simulation (HPS). METHODS Eight residents completed two iterations of this HPS OSCE containing seven stations and utilizing checklists, global ratings, and scoring sheets. RESULTS The first- and second-year residents scored similarly with mean scores of 64/104 and 62/123, ...

determining the intensity of effective individual factors on clinical decision-making of nurses     rostamniya l [1] ,pariyad e [2] [3] , asayesh h [4] ,ghanbari v [5] *     received: 7 oct , 2013 accepted: 1 jan , 2014  abstract  background & aims : clinical decision-making is a critical thinking process which is accepted as an essential part of nursing practice. effective decision-making need...

decision making, realtime, anesthesia, diagnosis, monitoring, control, planning, attention, data overload, cogniti ve overload Objectives: To study the intraoperative behavior of anesthetists in order to characterize clinical decision making processes under realtime conditions. Design: Non-participatory observation and retrospective subject interview. Clinical behavior was captured on video, an...

End-of-life medical decision making presents a major challenge to patients and physicians alike. In order to determine whether it is ethically justifiable to forgo medical treatment in such scenarios, clinical data must be interpreted alongside patient values, as well as in light of the physician's ethical commitments. Though much has been written about this ethical issue from religious perspec...

ecisions based on clinical examination are critical to the practice of ophthalmology. Although quite different disease processes can produce the same structural and functional outcomes, treatment decisions are often directly based on the observation of a complex of signs and symptoms. Thus, presented with a patient with sudden visual loss and/or ocular pain due to posterior uveitis, the ophthal...

Conclusion 98 Research in clinical reasoning has focused strongly on the cognitive aspects of the processes involved. This chapter reports on research that examined the context of and factors influencing clinical decision making. Clinical decision making is both an outcome and a component of clinical reasoning. Given its pivotal place in the practice of health professionals, it is imperative to...

From 2011 to 2014, there were six cases of suspected medical malpractice in the Central Java Region; four clinical resolved by an ethics board and two a public court, so that it serves as reference for decision-making physicians, many ethical problems addition legal exist medicine. Doctors, Indonesian citizens, are obligated implement norms laws apply Indonesia. However, professionals, they als...