Analysing Medical
Investigations
It
is essential to understand medical investigations and learn a logical, orderly
method of analysing medical investigations.
It
is best to avoid learning patterns and pattern recognition and instead learn a
hypothetico-deductive method of analysing (analysis and synthesis) see
ACES for PACES preface for more detailed
explanation of this.
Analysis of investigations has similarities to clinical method in that one
analyses changes in structure and function that indicate the nature of the
disease process. Read up ACES for PACES
chapter 5 Physical Examination to learn more about this concept.
Set
out below are systems of analysing medical investigations
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