Context and How it Influences Our Professional Thinking

Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: Controversies in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 63-75

  Ryan, Susan ^a   Hills, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big contextual picture; Clinical reasoning; Contextual reasoning; Continuing professional development (CPD); Dysphagia; Narrative and interactive reasoning; Osteoporosis; Pragmatics; Rehabilitative care; Scientific, procedural and diagnostic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874393842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118702833.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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