Intro

Question 1

What are the steps for diagnosis and treatment?

Answer 1

1. Complete History
2. Complete physical examination
3. Appropriate laboratory testing
4. Appropriate radiological/imaging studies
5. Consider patient adherence to potential treatment
6. Maintain ethical decision-making and care

Question 2

Which steps to diagnosis and treatment are used to support and confirm the diagnostic impression?

Answer 2

1. Appropriate laboratory testing
2. Appropriate radiological/imaging studies

Question 3

What is the most important tool in obtaining a diagnosis?

Answer 3

History

Question 4

Under the “plan” section for a H&P what should be listed?

Answer 4

1. Diagnostic (labs, imaging)
2. Therapeutic
   -Educatonal
   - Pharmacological
   - Non-Pharmacological

Question 5

What are some common laboratory and imaging assessments?

Answer 5

1. CBC
2. Serology (detection of antibodies)
3. Lipid panel
4. Bacteriology (cultures)
5. Urinalysis

Question 6

When should you order diagnostic studies?

Answer 6

1. Confirm suspected dx
2. Monitor progression/ regression of disease
3. Monitor therapeutic levels
4. Measure fitness

Question 7

What is the definition of sensitivity?

Answer 7

An index of the diagnostic test’s ability to detect disease when it is present

Question 8

What is the definition of specificity?

Answer 8

The ability of the test to correctly identify the absence of the disease
-Specific for a certain disease
EX: the test is negative, the patient does not have the disease

Question 9

True or false? Do test make the diagnoses/

Answer 9

False
-Clinicians make diagnoses

Question 10

What are different ways to asses the severity of disease?

Answer 10

1. Staging
2. Mild, moderate, or severe
3. Primary, secondary, tertiary, latent

Question 11

What are the prognosis and Tx based on?

Answer 11

They are based on severity
-Tx is tailored to the extent/ stage of disease

Question 12

When are disease not “staged”

Answer 12

When the prognosis and or tx is not affected

Question 13

What is the final step when giving treatment to a patient?

Answer 13

Measure of response should be recorded and monitored
- Clinical (pulmonary examination)
- Following tests (PSA levels, imaging studies)

Question 14

What are the three types of Health Maintenance & Disease Prevention?

Answer 14

1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary

Question 15

What is primary prevention?

Answer 15

Attempt to prevent the development of a disorder
- Immunization/ vaccinations
- Screening for ris factors

Question 16

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 16

Early dection in asymptomatic people
- screening for the presence of the disease
- Mammograms, ultrasound, DEXA scans

Question 17

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 17

Problem is actively there
-goal is to limit the impact/ damage of an established disease to prevent complication

Question 18

What are the components of a prescription?

Answer 18

1. Suprascription
2. Inscription
3. Subscription
4. Signatura

Question 19

What falls under the inscription?

Answer 19

1. Names and quantities of the Chief ingredients
2. Dosa and dosage form

Question 20

What falls under subscription?

Answer 20

Direction to the pharmacist on how to compound the medication
- pill
- tablet
-capsule

Question 21

What falls under the signatura?

Answer 21

Instructions on how, how much, when, and hw long to use the medication

Question 22

What are the Cutler’s Laws/

Answer 22

1. Common disease occur commonly
2. Uncommon manifestation of common disease are more common than uncommon diseases
3. No disease is rare to the person who has it