Clinical Reasoning in Primary Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2026 | Viewed by 3828
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Interests: medical education; health professional education; clinical education; primary care; family medicine; assessment; program evaluation; interprofessional education; collaborative practice; curriculum development; psychometric analysis; communication skills; patient-provider relationship
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Dear Colleagues,
Numerous studies have been published in the field of clinical reasoning; however, this topic continues to captivate researchers, as clinical reasoning constitutes a fundamental aspect of the daily tasks related to addressing patient health issues. Many investigations are confined to the realm of physician diagnosis, or do not specifically target the processes pertinent to nursing and its associated domains.
This Special Issue primarily focuses on the following aspects: (1) whole-person care, (2) longitudinal care, (3) educational strategies, (4) contextual learning, (5) multimorbidity management, (6) interprofessional collaboration, and (7) therapeutic/management reasoning.
In this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, and conceptual papers are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following: middle-range theories to explain how primary-care clinical reasoning is cognitively functioning, any educational programs to enhance primary-care clinical reasoning, any conceptual difference between specialist care and generalist care, etc.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Hirotaka Onishi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- shared decision making
- person-centered care
- patient–healthcare provider relationship
- middle-range theory
- cognitive science
- precepting
- interprofessional collaborative practice
- interprofessional socialization
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