Open AccessBook Review: “Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions”
Author(s) -
Bill Lord
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australasian journal of paramedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 15
ISSN - 2202-7270
DOI - 10.33151/ajp.1.3.193
Subject(s) - domain (mathematical analysis) , health care , expert opinion , clinical judgment , institution , medicine , medical emergency , knowledge management , psychology , medical education , nursing , computer science , medical physics , intensive care medicine , political science , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Decisions relating to the timely and effective delivery of prehospital care depend on “clinical reasoning”, a skill that integrates extensive clinical experience and domain specific knowledge to support the collection and evaluation of clinical data, and the synthesis of information to guide patient management decisions. In contrast to health care centred within an institution where decisions can be supported by expert opinion, access to medical records, and advanced diagnostic tests, patient care in the prehospital domain usually requires independent, time critical decision making in an environment where similar support is unavailable or incomplete. Hence sound and reliable thinking and decision-making skills are fundamental to prehospital practice.