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Medical Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning

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The article was published on 1978-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1600 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Model-based reasoning.

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Collecting and Analyzing Data: Doing and Thinking

TL;DR: The success or failure in the diagnostic process is dependent upon the quality of the patient-physician relationship and the physician must be caring and command sufficient competence in the psychosocial aspects of clinical medicine.
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Diagnostic Problem-Solving Behavior of Expert Practitioners in the Field of Learning Disabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the diagnostic problem-solving behavior of expert practitioners in the field of learning disabilities and reported that information gathering is not guided by theory, that a lot of information remains uninterpreted, and that the relationship between diagnoses and remedial prescriptions is weak.
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Can ill-structured problems reveal beliefs about medical knowledge and knowing? A focus-group approach

TL;DR: Can ill-structured problems be used to elicit general practice trainees' and trainers' EB?
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Tracing the decision-making process of physicians with a Decision Process Matrix

TL;DR: DPM is a useful tool for tracing real and individual diagnostic processes and allows further investigations into the underlying cognitive diagnostic processes on a theoretical level and improvement of individual clinical reasoning skills in practice.
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Abstract explanations of strategy in a diagnostic consultation system

TL;DR: The aspects of NEOMYCIN that make abstract strategic explanations possible are described and the representation of strategic knowledge explicitly and separately from domain knowledge is described and it is demonstrated how this representation can be used to generate explanations.