Clinical reasoning in the health professions

 Content: Section 1: Clinical reasoning and clinical decision making --
 nature and context --
 Clinical decision making and multiple problem spaces / Joy Higgs and Mark A. Jones --
 The context for clinical decision making in the 21st century / Della Fish and Joy Higgs --
 Clinical reasoning and models of practice / Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs --
 Collaborative decision making / Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs --
 Action and narrative: two dynamics of clinical reasoning / Maureen Hayes Fleming and Cheryl Mattingly --
 Clinical reasoning and generic thinking skills / Stephen Brookfield --
 Clinical reasoning and patient-centered care / Sue Atkins and Steven J. Ersser --
 Factors influencing clinical decision making / Megan Smith, Joy Higgs and Elizabeth Ellis --
 Dimensions of clinical reasoning capability / Nicole Christensen [and others]. Section 2: Reasoning, expertise and knowledge --
 The development of clinincal reasoning expertise / Henny P.A. Boshuizen and Henk G. Schmidt --
 Expertise and clinical reasoning / Gail Jensen, Linda Resnik and Amy Haddad --
 Clinical reasoning and biomedical knowledge: implications for teaching / David R. Kaufman, Nicole A. Yoskowitz and Vimla L. Patel --
 Knowledge, reasoning and evidence for practice / Joy Higgs, Mark A. Jones and Angie Titchen --
 Knowledge generation and clinical reasoning in practice / Joy Higgs, Della Fish and Rodd Rothwell --
 Understanding knowledge as a sociocultural historical phenomenon / Dale Larsen, Stephen Loftus and Joy Higgs --
 Professional practice judgement artistry / Margo Paterson and Joy Higgs. Section 3: Clinical reasoning research trends / Methods in the study of clinical reasoning / José F. Arocha and Vimla L. Patel --
 A history of clinical reasoning research / Stephen Loftus and Megan Smith --
 A place for new research directions / Joy Higgs and Stephen Loftus. Section 4: Clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making approaches --
 Clinical reasoning in medicine / Alan Schwartz and Arthur S. Elstein --
 Clinical reasoning in nursing / Marsha E. Fonteyn and Barbara J. Ritter --
 Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy / Mark A. Jones, Gail Jensen and Ian Edwards --
 Clinical reasoning in dentistry / Shiva Khatami, Michael I. MacEntee and Stephen Loftus --
 Clinical reasoning in occupational therapy / Chris Chapparo and Judy Ranka --
 Ethical reasoning / Ian Edwards and Clare Delany --
 Multidisciplinary clinical decision making / Anne Croker, Stephen Loftus and Joy Higgs --
 Treatment decision making in the medical encounter: the case of shared decision making / Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan --
 Algorithms, clinical pathways and clinical guidelines / Karen Grimmer and Stephen Loftus --
 Clinical reasoning to facilitate cognitive--experiential change / Mark A. Jones and Ian Edwards. Section 5: Communicating about clinical reasoning --
 Learning to communicate clinical reasoning / Rola Ajjawi and Joy Higgs --
 Learning the language of clinical reasoning / Stephen Loftus and Joy Higgs --
 Beyond the restitution narrative: lived bodies and expert patients / Suzanne Alder and Debbie Horsfall --
 Facilitating clinical decision making in students in intercultural fieldwork placements / Lindy McAllister and Gail Whiteford --
 Using decision aids to involve clients in clinical decision making / Lyndal Trevena, Alex Barratt and Kirsten McCaffery. Section 6: Teaching and learning clinical reasoning --
 Teaching and learning clinical reasoning / Susan Ryan and Joy Higgs --
 Helping physiotherapy students develop clinical reasoning capability / Nicole Christensen [and others] --
 Speech-language pathology students: learning clinical reasoning / Lindy McAllister and Miranda Rose --
 Teaching clinical reasoning in nursing education / Suzanne Narayan and Sheila Corcoran-Perry --
 Assessing clinical reasoning / C.P.M. van der Vleuten, G.R. Norman and L.W.T. Schuwirth --
 Using simulated patients to teach clinical reasoning / Helen Edwards and Miranda Rose --
 Peer coaching to generate clinical reasoning skills / Richard Ladyshewsky and Mark A. Jones --
 Using open and distance learning to develop clinical reasoning skills / Janet Grant --
 Cultivating a thinking surgeon: using a clinical thinking pathway as a learning and assessment process / Della Fish and Linda de Cossart --
 Teaching clinical reasoning and culture / Elizabeth Henley and Robyn Twible --
 Teaching clinical reasoning to medical students / Ann Sefton, Jill Gordon and Michael Field --
 Using case reports to teach clinical reasoning / Darren A. Rivett and Mark A. Jones --
 Using mind mapping to improve students' metacognition / Mary Cahill and Marsha Fonteyn.
 Abstract:             
              Clinical reasoning is the foundation of professional clinical practice. This book provides the useful text on the theoretical basis of clinical reasoning in the health professions and examines strategies for assisting learners, scholars and clinicians develop their reasoning expertise.                 Read more...