ReviewThe Medical journal of Australia2023
Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review.
Review in The Medical journal of Australia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
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- When emergency physicians meet patients displaying irritable behaviours: a randomised vignette-based experiment investigating physicians' emotions and clinical reasoning.BMJ quality & safety · 2026Article
- Beyond a Diagnosis: A Qualitative Study Exploring Patient and Caregiver Expectations About Emergency Department Visits Amid Uncertainty.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Metrology in Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA): From Measurement Science to Clinical and Research Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Nurse Practitioners' Experiences Navigating Treatment Decision-Making Affecting Older People with Neurocognitive Disorders and Cancer.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2026Article
- Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2026Article
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- Managing diagnostic uncertainty in primary care: a mixed-methods study of family physicians' experiences in Türkiye.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Feeling the Vibes: An Investigation Into Resident Antibiotic Prescribing Practices.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Commentary: Internal medicine at the crossroads of long COVID diagnosis and management.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical Reasoning Uncertainty in Veterinary Medical Encounters with a Clinical Example.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- 'Am I doing this right?' Physician perceptions of the global assessment in clinical trials of systemic sclerosis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Postgraduate GPs' experience of attending medical uncertainty training during the standardised training of residents: a qualitative process evaluation.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Treatment-focused clinical reasoning in medical students: relationship with academic success and professional commitment.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Exploring response process validity of uncertainty tolerance scales implemented among health professions students.Anatomical sciences education · 2025Article
- Addressing multiple long-term conditions in the undergraduate medical school curriculum: a focus group study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Mapping Educational uncertainty stimuli to support health professions educators' in developing learner uncertainty tolerance.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2025Article
- Like milk on the stove: Healthcare professionals navigating uncertainty when caring for families with 22q11DS.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Clinicians must make decisions amid the uncertainty that is ubiquitous to clinical practice. Uncertainty in clinical practice can assume many forms depending on its source, such as insufficient personal knowledge or scientific evidence, limited practical understanding or competence, challenging interpersonal relationships, and complexity and ambiguity in clinical encounters. The level and experience of uncertainty varies according to personal traits, clinical context, affective factors and sociocultural norms. Clinicians vary in their tolerance of uncertainty, and maladaptive responses may adversely affect patient care and clinician wellbeing. Various strategies can be used to minimise and manage, but not eliminate, uncertainty and to share uncertainty with patients without compromising the clinician-patient relationship or clinician credibility.
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