Table 3 Terms used to refer to clinical reasoning and their associated categorization
From: Mapping clinical reasoning literature across the health professions: a scoping review
Category | Smaller/Nested Code | Terms Identified in this Review: | |
|---|---|---|---|
Reasoning Skills | Clinical Skills | Critical Thinking | |
Cognitive Skill | Reasoning | ||
Critical Reasoning | Reasoning Skills | ||
Reasoning Performance | Expert Reasoning | Adaptive Expertise | Expert Reasoning |
Cognitive Expertise | Expertise | ||
Diagnostic Expertise | Medical Expertise | ||
Reasoning Competence | Clinical Competence | Diagnostic Acumen | |
Clinical Performance | Diagnostic Performance | ||
Competency | |||
Reasoning Processes (Components) | Cognitive | Analytic Reasoning | Inductive and Deductive Reasoning |
Analytical Thinking | Intuition | ||
Backward Forward Reasoning | Intuitive Reasoning | ||
Backward Reasoning | Medical Information Processing | ||
Bayesian Probabilistic Thinking | Pattern Matching | ||
Cognitive Processes | Pattern Recognition | ||
Heuristics | ‘Street Diagnosis’ Or ‘In The Blink Of The Eye’ | ||
Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning | |||
Metacognitive | Metacognition | Self-Monitoring | |
Reflective Thinking Skills | |||
Outcome Of Reasoning | Errors/Failures of Reasoning | Cognitive Bias | Medical Error |
Error Prevention | Premature Closure | ||
Judgement Errors | Reasoning Errors | ||
Outcome/Aim | Choice Of Treatment | Differential Diagnosis | |
Classification | Management Plan | ||
Clinical Management Decisions | |||
Diagnosis | |||
Quality Of Outcome | Accuracy | Diagnostic Success | |
Diagnostic Accuracy | |||
Diagnostic And Management Quality | |||
Context Of Reasoning | Dialectical Reasoning | Shared Understanding | |
Informed Decision Making | Situation Awareness | ||
Participatory Decision Making | Situational Judgement | ||
Shared Decision Making | |||
Purpose/Goal Of Reasoning | Different Goals Of Reasoning | Diagnostic Justification | |
Outcome-Focused Goal Of Reasoning | Case Management | Patient Management | |
Diagnostic Reasoning | Therapeutic Reasoning | ||
Diagnostic Thinking | Treatment Decision Making | ||