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Though some uncertainty is expected during clinical encounters, it can have detrimental effects on clinical reasoning. Likewise, evidence has established the potentially detrimental effects of the presence of distracting contextual factors (i.e., factors other than case content needed to establish a diagnosis) in a clinical encounter on clinical reasoning. The purpose of this study was to examine how linguistic markers of uncertainty overlap with different clinical reasoning tasks and how distracting contextual factors might affect physicians\u2019 clinical reasoning process.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_dx-2020-0019_abs_002_w2aab3b7c96b1b6b1aab1c16b3Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this descriptive exploratory study, physicians participated in a live or video recorded simulated clinical encounter depicting a patient with unstable angina with and without contextual factors. Transcribed think-aloud reflections were coded using Goldszmidt\u2019s clinical reasoning task typology (26 tasks encompassing the domains of framing, diagnosis, management, and reflection) and then those coded categories were examined using linguistic markers of uncertainty (e.g., probably, possibly, etc.).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_dx-2020-0019_abs_003_w2aab3b7c96b1b6b1aab1c16b4Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Thirty physicians with varying levels of experience participated. Consistent with expectations, descriptive analysis revealed that physicians expressed more uncertainty in cases with distracting contextual factors compared to those without. Across the four domains of reasoning tasks, physicians expressed the most uncertainty in diagnosis and least in reflection.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_dx-2020-0019_abs_004_w2aab3b7c96b1b6b1aab1c16b5Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These results highlight how linguistic markers of uncertainty can shed light on the role contextual factors might play in uncertainty which can lead to error and why it is essential to find ways of managing it.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/dx-2020-0019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,10]],"date-time":"2020-07-10T09:09:29Z","timestamp":1594372169000},"page":"299-305","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Examining the patterns of uncertainty across clinical reasoning tasks: effects of contextual factors on the clinical reasoning process"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Divya","family":"Ramani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Medicine , 4301 Jones Bridge Road , Bethesda , 20814 , Maryland , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Soh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uniformed Services University , 4301 Jones Bridge Road Building 53-R30 , Bethesda , MD , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jerusalem","family":"Merkebu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine , Uniformed Services University , Bethesda , USA"},{"name":"Health Professions Education , Uniformed Services University , Bethesda , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Steven J.","family":"Durning","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine , Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexis","family":"Battista","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine , Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elexis","family":"McBee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine , Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda , USA"},{"name":"Internal Medicine , Naval Medicine Center San Diego , San Diego , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Temple","family":"Ratcliffe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UT Health San Antonio , San Antonio , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abigail","family":"Konopasky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medicine , Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121207061935393_j_dx-2020-0019_ref_001_w2aab3b7c96b1b6b1ab2b2b1Aa","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Young, M, Thomas, A, Lubarsky, S, Ballard, T, Gordon, D, Gruppen, LD, et al. 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