Sentence examples for diagnostic judgement from inspiring English sources

Clinicians will be asked to make their diagnostic judgement "as if" they were seeing the patient for the first time, rather than introducing any prior knowledge of the patient's history into the judgement task.

Roth and other old age psychiatrists believed the adoption of rating scales would increase their authority by overcoming the fact that 'psychiatrists may differ widely from one another in the diagnostic judgement they make in identical cases' (Roth, 1967: 428).

20 Consequently, the patient is invited to accept the diagnostic judgement of the doctor and the general, non-specific explanation of the results is reflected in the general, non-specific response provided by the patient.

These methods are described in detail elsewhere [ 14] but briefly, the opinions of the three experts were combined using probabilistic techniques which took into account not only differences between responders but also differences in diagnostic judgement thresholds between the experts.

That is to say, the plainer announcement of diagnostic results ('your scan is fine' type 1), which does not include sharing the diagnostic evidence projects a more paternalistic approach implicit in which, the patient is expected to accept the diagnostic judgement of the doctor.

The doctors could express their diagnostic judgements freely, with their own words.

For the few diagnostic judgements where there was initial disagreement, it was possible to agree upon an interpretation.

The participants were not forced to express their diagnostic judgements in a specific format, and their free verbal statements therefore had to be interpreted and coded.

Cohen's kappa test was used to determine interrater agreement regarding the coding of the think-aloud protocols and the classification of the diagnostic judgements.

Information about the EF value was the single most frequently used argument for or against CHF; nevertheless, in one third of the diagnostic judgements the GPs did not consider any information about the ECHO in their diagnostic reasoning.

In the present study we used written case vignettes (case descriptions) and think-aloud technique to study how GPs' diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic judgements about patients with suspected CHF are related to the recommendations in the European guidelines [ 9].