DOCTORS DIARY
Year : 2007 | Volume
: 18 | Issue : 3 | Page : 448--451
Diagnostic Decision Making in Medicine
Abdullah A Al Sayyari
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; Clinical Professor of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Abdullah A Al Sayyari
Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, P.O. Box 27049, Riyadh 11417
Saudi Arabia
Medical diagnostic decision making, like all decision making instances, involves a cognitive process. It starts with internalizing data, structuring it and generating hypotheses. In simple cases very often the experienced physician utilizes pattern recognition, intuition and retrieval in reaching a diagnostic decision. In more complicated cases more complex cognitive process takes place including the balancing of probabilities and the weighing of evidence. Apart from knowledge and experience, personal traits and perceptions and prejudices play some part in some situations.
How to cite this article:
Al Sayyari AA. Diagnostic Decision Making in Medicine.Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl 2007;18:448-451
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