Module 9 – Diagnostic Decision Making:
Evidence-Based Endocrinology.
Diagnostic reasoning.
Cognitive errors in diagnosis.
Why did I miss the diagnosis?
Reducing diagnostic errors in medicine.
The cognitive psychology of missed diagnoses.
Module 10 – Studies of Diagnostic Test Accuracy:
Module 11 – Studies of Disease Probability for Differential Diagnosis:
Five uneasy pieces about pretest probability.
Could our pretest probabilities become evidence based?
We should overcome the barriers to evidence-based clinical diagnosis.
Approach to patients with weight loss
An approach to the management of unintentional weight loss in elderly people.
The diagnostic spectrum of unintentional weight loss.
Office management of weight loss in older persons.
Module 12 – Clinical Decision Rules:
Does this patient have deep vein thrombosis?
Usefulness of clinical prediction rules for the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism.
The value of clinical assessment in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
Understanding articles describing clinical prediction tools.
How to use articles about clinical decision rules.
Impact of using prediction rules to make decisions.
Module 13 – Studies of Screening Strategies and Early Diagnosis:
Screening for breast cancer.
Cancer screening in elderly patients: a framework for individualized decision making.
Shared decision making about screening and chemoprevention
Overstating the evidence for lung cancer screening
Module 14 – Searching for Diagnostic Evidence:
The well-built clinical question
How to find evidence when you need it, part 1
How to find evidence when you need it, part 2
How to find evidence when you need it, part 3
How to find evidence when you need it, part 4
Searching the medical literature using PubMed.
Module 15 – Other Diagnostic Evidence/Pitfalls in Diagnostic Decision Making:
Judgment under uncertainty.
Systematic errors in medical decision making.
Rationality in medical decision making.
Introducing cognitive psychology as one more basic science.
Problems for clinical judgment 1.
Problems for clinical judgment 2.
Problems for clinical judgment 3.
When is measuring sensitivity and specificity sufficient to evaluate a diagnostic test, and when do we need randomized trials?
Module 16 – Integrating Evidence into Diagnostic Decisions:
Breathlessness in hospitalised adult patients.
Does the clinical examination predict airflow limitation?
Does this patient have pulmonary embolism?
Does this dyspneic patient in the ED have congestive heart failure?
