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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Diagnostic reasoning"”.
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Diagnostic Reasoning With Circumstantial Evidence (problem-Solving)
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The Impact of a Computer Simulated Case Study on Nurse Practitioner Students' Declarative Knowledge and Clinical Performance
… simulated case studies in the instruction of diagnostic reasoning in nurse practitioner programs.
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Self-Supervised ECG Learning for Multimodal Clinical Tasks
… time series, images, and text to support robust diagnostic reasoning across diverse input combinations. We first introduce ECG-JEPA, a self-supervised encoder pretrained on multiple ECG datasets to learn generalizable time series representations. This unimodal pretraining improves ECG …
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Knowledge-Based Architecture for Integrated Condition Based Maintenance of Engineering Systems
… In addition to signal processing and subsequent diagnostic and prognostic algorithms these new technologies involve storage of large volumes of both quantitative and qualitative information to carry out maintenance tasks effectively. This not only requires research and development in advanced …
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The Assessment of Clinical Reasoning in Preceptors Across the Athletic Training Profession
<p>Clinical reasoning (CR) is defined as a complex multi-factorial metacognitive process for diagnosis formulation. Clinical reasoning begins as a student and develops over a career. Students are typically taught an analytical approach defined as hypothetico-deductive reasoning (HDR). Expert …
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Use of External Representations in Reasoning about Causality
… investigated if diagrams aid in deductive reasoning with formal causal models. Four studies were conducted exploring participants' ability to discover causal paths, identify causes and effects, and create alternative explanations for variable relationships. In Study 1, abstract variables of …
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Problem Definition and Hypothesis Generation by Recent Family Nurse Practitioner Graduates
… (FNP) graduates. The hypotheticodeductive-reasoning model served as the theoretical framework for the study. An alternating-treatment single-subject experimental design was used to examine the effects of problem definition on 8 recent FNP graduates' ability to generate hypotheses to …
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Flight nurse perceptions of factors influencing clinical decision making in their practice environment
… physical assessment paper, yet many identified diagnostic reasoning, advanced nursing diagnosis as some of the influences in their decision making. The findings add to the paucity of knowledge of clinical decision making in this context of flight nursing practice.
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Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Prompt Engineering, and Vision Language Models for Surface Defect Classification and Root Cause Analysis in Manufacturing
… manufacturing knowledge to improve diagnostic reasoning. Three GPT-5 model variants (gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5) were evaluated across reasoning effort levels and prompting strategies (ReAct and ReAct + 5 Whys). Larger models achieved higher diagnostic accuracy, whereas …
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Registered Nurses Perceptions of TheirUse of Critical Thinkng Skills in the Clinical Setting
… solution, and when making clinical decisions, diagnostic reasoning or professional judgments. Critical thinking is a creative process as nurses identify areas within their clinical practice where new theories need to be developed.</p> <p>This study investigates how registered nurses practicing …
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The Impact of Instrumentation Location and Reliability on the Performance of Operators Using an Ecological Interface for Process Control
… information appeared to support general diagnostic performance when dedicated sensors were used to derive this information. But as hypothesized, this diagnostic performance was compromised when higher-order information was derived from distally measured data. When compared to the mimic …
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A formal characterization of a domain independent abductive reasoning system
… stands out in utilizing abduction is automated diagnostic reasoning. This thesis provides a formal specification and methods of computation for a domain independent propositional abductive reasoning system. On the competence level, specifications are defined for domain independent abductive …
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Causal Inference and Evidence-Grounded Language Models for Trustworthy Personalized Clinical Decision Support
… tools into active collaborators in clinical reasoning. However, most machine learning approaches remain limited to risk prediction, lacking the causal reasoning, patient-specific personalization, and evidence-verifiable justification required for high-stakes medical decision-making. This …
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Descriptive analysis of the musculoskeletal case load referred for ultrasound imaging in an Auckland imaging practice : a case study
… on palpation and physical examination to inform diagnostic reasoning. However, there are limitations related to accuracy of this approach. Diagnostic ultrasound is a tool that can be used to inform clinical practice by aiding diagnosis of musculoskeletal conditions. To date, there appears to be …
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Checklist of cognitive contributions to diagnostic errors: a tool for clinician-educators
… educators readily identify trainees with diagnostic reasoning difficulties but often lack training to diagnose and remediate errors. Taxonomies of cognitive causes of diagnostic errors can inform remediation, but clinician educators need simple tools to identify, record, report and provide …