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Mapping clinical reasoning literature across the health professions: a scoping review.

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Background

Clinical reasoning is at the core of health professionals' practice. A mapping of what constitutes clinical reasoning could support the teaching, development, and assessment of clinical reasoning across the health professions.

Methods

We conducted a scoping study to map the literature on clinical reasoning across health professions literature in the context of a larger Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) review on clinical reasoning assessment. Seven databases were searched using subheadings and terms relating to clinical reasoning, assessment, and Health Professions. Data analysis focused on a comprehensive analysis of bibliometric characteristics and the use of varied terminology to refer to clinical reasoning.

Results

Literature identified: 625 papers spanning 47?years (1968-2014), in 155 journals, from 544 first authors, across eighteen Health Professions. Thirty-seven percent of papers used the term clinical reasoning; and 110 other terms referring to the concept of clinical reasoning were identified. Consensus on the categorization of terms was reached for 65 terms across six different categories: reasoning skills, reasoning performance, reasoning process, outcome of reasoning, context of reasoning, and purpose/goal of reasoning. Categories of terminology used differed across Health Professions and publication types.

Discussion

Many diverse terms were present and were used differently across literature contexts. These terms likely reflect different operationalisations, or conceptualizations, of clinical reasoning as well as the complex, multi-dimensional nature of this concept. We advise authors to make the intended meaning of 'clinical reasoning' and associated terms in their work explicit in order to facilitate teaching, assessment, and research communication.

SUBMITTER: Young ME

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7140328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping clinical reasoning literature across the health professions: a scoping review.

Young Meredith E ME Thomas Aliki A Lubarsky Stuart S Gordon David D Gruppen Larry D LD Rencic Joseph J Ballard Tiffany T Holmboe Eric E Da Silva Ana A Ratcliffe Temple T Schuwirth Lambert L Dory Valérie V Durning Steven J SJ

BMC medical education 20200407 1

<h4>Background</h4>Clinical reasoning is at the core of health professionals' practice. A mapping of what constitutes clinical reasoning could support the teaching, development, and assessment of clinical reasoning across the health professions.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a scoping study to map the literature on clinical reasoning across health professions literature in the context of a larger Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) review on clinical reasoning assessment. Seven databases were s ...[more]

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