Clinical Thinking Evidence, Communication and Decision-Making

Clinicians are taught masses of facts, but not how to use them in the messy reality of patient care. This book provides a missing link between evidence and the clinical coalface. Though there are plenty of guides to evidence-based medicine, few explain how to build the information into patient oriented decision-making. Clinical Thinking allows you to think both logically and laterally about daily clinical issues and look at problems from different angles.

• Uses realistic scenarios, frameworks and models
• Takes you through the whole decision-making process, from observation and narrative to evaluating the best evidence for the individual situation
• Illustrations and flow charts help clarify this new approach
• These methods have been tried and tested by the authors, internationally respected general practitioners and teachers in primary care ? all leaders in the evidence-based medicine movement

This book takes clinical medicine a big step forward in the direction of patient-focused practice!

1 Principles of clinical problem solving.

2 Communication in clinical care.

3 Models of disease.

4 Diagnosis.

5 Fine art of prognostication.

6 Making clinical management decisions.

7 Monitoring in chronic disease.

8 Screening for disease, health promotion and disease prevention.

9 Endpiece.

References.

Index

Chris Del Mar, Bond University.

Jenny Doust, University of Queensland.

Paul Glasziou, University of Oxford.