The Strategy of Clinical Reasoning
• Techniques & Settings •
• Clinical Decision Making in Psychiatry •
Sep 28, 05
Diagnostic Reasoning is a feed-forward, feedback hypothetico-deductive process involving cue recognition, clinical inference, hypothesis testing, inquiry, planning, the search for evidence, the reaching of a diagnostic conclusion, and diagnostic formulation. In order to support the complexity of this process, the diagnostician must do several things (Table 9-3).
