Four Major Components of Diagnostic Reasoning
What will be an ideal response?
Attending to initially available cues
Formulating diagnostic hypotheses
Gather data relative to the tentative hypotheses
Evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving at a final diagnosis
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