Originally compiled by the staff of  the Sladen Library of the Henry Ford Health Center. 
 

What Type of Urinary Incontinence Does This Woman Have? Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc; Cara Tannenbaum; Kevin E. Thorpe; Sharon E. Straus JAMA. 2008;299(12):1446-1456.FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Bacterial Peritonitis or Portal Hypertension? How Do I Perform a Paracentesis and Analyze the Results? Camilla L. Wong; Jayna Holroyd-Leduc; Kevin E. Thorpe; Sharon E. Straus JAMA. 2008;299(10):1166-1178. FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient With Diabetes Have Osteomyelitis of the Lower Extremity? Sonia Butalia; Valerie A. Palda; Robert J. Sargeant; Allan S. Detsky; Ophyr Mourad JAMA. 2008;299(7):806-813. FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Child Have a Urinary Tract Infection? Nader Shaikh; Natalia E. Morone; John Lopez; Jennifer Chianese; Shilpa Sangvai; Frank D’Amico; Alejandro Hoberman; Ellen R. Wald JAMA. 2007;298(24):2895-2904.FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Child Have Appendicitis? David G. Bundy; Julie S. Byerley; E. Allen Liles; Eliana M. Perrin; Jessica Katznelson; Henry E. Rice JAMA. 2007;298:438-451. FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Erythema Migrans? Carrie D. Tibbles; Jonathan A. Edlow JAMA. 2007;297:2617-2627.FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Dementia? Tracey Holsinger; Janie Deveau; Malaz Boustani; John W. Williams Jr JAMA. 2007;297:2391-2404. FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient With a Pericardial Effusion Have Cardiac Tamponade? Christopher L. Roy; Melissa A. Minor; M. Alan Brookhart; Niteesh K. Choudhry JAMA. 2007;297:1810-1818. FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia? Michael Klompas JAMA. 2007;297:1583-1593. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Will My Patient Fail? David A. Ganz; Yeran Bao; Paul G. Shekelle; Laurence Z. Rubenstein JAMA. 2007;297:77-86. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

How Do I Perform a Lumbar Puncture and Analyze the Results to Diagnose Bacterial Meningitis? Sharon E. Straus; Kevin E. Thorpe; Jayna Holroyd-Leduc JAMA. 2006;296:2012-2022. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Do Opiates Affect the Clinical Evaluation of Patients With Acute Abdominal Pain? Sumant R. Ranji; L. Elizabeth Goldman; David L. Simel; Kaveh G. Shojania; JAMA. 2006;296:1764-1774.HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient With Headache Have a Migraine or Need Neuroimaging? Michael E. Detsky; Devon R. McDonald; Mark O. Baerlocher; George A. Tomlinson; Douglas C. McCrory; Christopher M. Booth JAMA. 2006;296:1274-1283.. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Can the Clinical History Distinguish Between Organic and Functional Dyspepsia? Paul Moayyedi; Nicholas J. Talley; M. Brian Fennerty; Nimish Vakil HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does the Clinical Examination Predict Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease? Nadia A. Khan; Sherali A. Rahim; Sonia S. Anand; David L. Simel; Akbar Panju HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Hearing Impairment? Akshay Bagai; Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan; Allan S. Detsky JAMA. 2006;295:416-428. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? Philip S. Wells; Carolyn Owen; Steve Doucette; Dean Fergusson; Huyen Tran JAMA. 2006;2006;295:199-207.. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure? Charlie S. Wang; J. Mark FitzGerald; Michael Schulzer; Edwin Mak; Najib T. Ayas JAMA. 2005;294:1944-1956. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Is This Patient Having a Stroke? Larry B. Goldstein; David L. Simel JAMA. 2005;293:2391-2402. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have Myasthenia Gravis? Katalin Scherer; Richard S. Bedlack; David L. Simel JAMA. 2005;293:1906-1914. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have an Instability of the Shoulder or a Labrum Lesion? Jolanda J. Luime; Arianne P. Verhagen; Harald S. Miedema; Judith I. Kuiper; Alex Burdorf; Jan A. N. Verhaar; Bart W. Koes JAMA. 2004;292:1989-1999. HTML FULL TEXT | PDF

Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer?: An Evidence-Based Analysis of the Accuracy of Family Cancer History Harvey J. Murff; David R. Spigel; Sapna Syngal. JAMA. 292(12): 1480-1489. HTML FULL-TEXT | PDF

Is This Child Dehydrated? Michael J. Steiner; Darren A. DeWalt; Julie S. Byerley. JAMA. 291(22): 2746-2754. HTML FULL-TEXT | PDF

Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired?: Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest? Christopher M. Booth; Robert H. Boone; George Tomlinson; Allan S. Detsky. JAMA. 291(7): 870-879. HTML FULL-TEXT | PDF

Does this patient have pulmonary embolism? Sanjeev D. Chunilal; John W. Eikelboom; John Attia;et al. JAMA. 290(21):2849-2858, December 3, 2003.   HTML FULL-TEXT   |   PDF

Does This Child Have Acute Otitis Media? Russell Rothman; Thomas Owens; David L. Simel JAMA. 2003;290:1633-1640. HTML FULL-TEXT   |   PDF

Is this woman perimenopausal? &bnsp; L.A. Bastian, et.al.   JAMA 289(7): 895-902, February 19, 2003   HTML FULL-TEXT   |   PDF

Does this woman have an acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection?  S Bent et al.  JAMA 287(20): 2701-2710, May 22/29, 2002.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have an acute thoracic aortic dissection? M Klompas.  JAMA 287(17): 2262-72, May 1, 2002.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Is this patient clinically depressed?  JW Williams et al.  JAMA 287(9): 1160-70, March 6, 2002.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have temporal arteritis?  GW Smetana et al.  JAMA 287(1): 92-101, January 2, 2002.  HTML FULL-TEXT   |   PDF

Does this patient have a torn meniscus or ligament of the knee?  DH Solomon et al.  JAMA 286(13): 1610-20, October 3, 2001.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have clubbing?  K Myers et al.  JAMA 286(3): 341-7, July 18, 2001.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Is this patient allergic to penicillin?  An evidence-based analysis of the likelihood of penicillin allergy.  AR Salkind et al.  JAMA 285(19): 2498-2505, May 16, 2001.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have strep throat?  MH Ebell et al.  JAMA 284(22): 2912-8, December 13, 2000.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have carpal tunnel syndrome?  CA D'Arcy et al.  JAMA 283(23): 3110-7, June 21, 2000.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have breast cancer?  The screening clinical breast examination:  Should it be done?  How?  MB Barton et al.  JAMA 282(13): 1270-80, October 6, 1999.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this adult patient have acute meningitis?  J Attia et al.  JAMA 282(2): 175-81, July 14, 1999.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have aortic regurgitation?  NK Choudhry et al.  JAMA 281(23): 2231-8, June 16, 1999.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Is this patient hypovolemic?  S McGee et al.  JAMA 281(11): 1022-9, March 17, 1999.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have abdominal aortic aneurysm?  FA Lederle et al.  JAMA 281(1): 77-82, January 6, 1999.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Is this patient having a myocardial infarction?  AA Panju et al.  JAMA 280(14): 1256-63, October 14, 1998.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have deep vein thrombosis?  SS Anand et al.  JAMA 279(14): 1094-9, April 8, 1998.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have a mole or a melanoma?  JD Whited et al.  JAMA 279(9): 696-701, March 4, 1998.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this infant have pneumonia?  P Margolis et al.  JAMA 279(4): 308-13, January 28, 1998.  HTML FULL-TEXT  |  PDF

Does this patient have community-acquired pneumonia?  Diagnosing pneumonia by history and physical examination.  JP Metlay et al.  JAMA 278(17): 1440-5, November 5, 1997.

Is this patient pregnant?  Can you reliably rule in or rule out early pregnancy by clinical examination?  LA Bastian et al.  JAMA 278(7): 586-91, August 20, 1997.

Can the clinical examination diagnose left-sided heart failure in adults?  RG Badgett et al.  JAMA 277(21): 1712-9, June 4, 1997.

The clinical examination:  An agenda to make it more rational [Editorial].  DL Simel et al.  JAMA 277(7): 572-4, February 19, 1997.

Does this patient have abnormal systolic murmur? E Etchells et al.  JAMA, 277(7): 564-71, February 19, 1997.

Does this patient have appendicitis?  JM Wagner et al.  JAMA 276(19): 1589-94, November 20, 1996.

Does this patient have abnormal central venous pressure?  DJ Cook et al.  JAMA 275(8): 630-4, February 28, 1996.

Is listening for abdominal bruits useful in the evaluation of hypertension?  JM Turnbull.  JAMA 274(16): 1299-1301, October 25, 1995.

Does this patient have hypertension?  How to measure blood pressure.  RA Reeves.  JAMA 273(15): 1211-8, April 19, 1995.

Does this patient have a goiter?  K Siminoski.  JAMA 273(10): 813-7, March 8, 1995.

Does the clinical examination predict airflow limitation?  DR Holleman et al.  JAMA 273(4): 313-9, January 25, 1995.

Does this patient have an alcohol problem?  JM Kitchens.  JAMA 272(22): 1782-7, December 14, 1994.

Physical examination of the liver.  CD Naylor.  JAMA 271(23): 1859-65, June 15, 1994.

Clinical assessment of stroke.  LB Goldstein et al.  JAMA 271(14): 1114-20, April 13, 1994.

Does this dizzy patient have a serious form of vertigo? DA Froehling et al.  JAMA 271(5): 385-8, February 2, 1994.

Is this patient malnourished?  AS Detsky et al.  JAMA 271(1): 54-8, January 5, 1994.

Does this patient have a clinically important carotid bruit?  JS Sauve et al.  JAMA 270(23): 2843-5, December 15, 1993.

Does this patient have splenomegaly?  SA Grover et al.  JAMA 270(18): 2218-21, November 10, 1993.

Does this patient have sinusitis?  Diagnosing acute sinusitis by history and physical examination.  JW Williams Jr et al.  JAMA 270(10): 1242-6, September 8, 1993. 

Is this patient taking the treatment as prescribed?  BJ Stephenson et al.  JAMA 269(21): 2779-81, June 2, 1993.

Evidence-based medicine.  A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine.  Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group.  JAMA 268(17): 2420-5, November 4, 1992.

What can the history and physical examination tell us about low back pain?  RA Deyo et al.  JAMA 268(6): 760-5, August 12, 1992.

Does this patient have ascites?  How to divine fluid in the abdomen.  JW Williams et al.  JAMA 267(19): 2645-8, May 20, 1992.

A primer on the precision and accuracy of the clinical examination.  DL Sackett et al.  JAMA 267(19): 2638-44, May 20, 1992.

The science of the art of the clinical examination [Editorial].  DL Sackett et al.  JAMA 267(19): 2650-52, May 20, 1992.