Application of Murtagh Safe Diagnostic Strategy in the General Practice Teaching Clinic: an Example of Rheumatic Polymyalgia

Abstract

The Murtagh safe diagnostic strategy proposed by renowned Australian general practitioner John Murtagh has been gradually used by general practitioners in clinical practice for diagnosis and treatment, mainly for initial diagnosis of common diseases, rapid identification of critical and severe diseases, analysis and judgment of the existence of diseases that can be easily overlooked, as well as to understand the patient's concerns and expectations. The general practice teaching clinic is an important training method for developing clinical thinking and enhancing diagnosis and treatment abilities of general practitioners. This article takes a patient with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) as a teaching case, applies the Murtagh safe diagnostic strategy to analyze the diagnosis and treatment ideas, analyzes the diagnosis and treatment process in combination with literature, summarizes diagnosis and treatment experience, guides general practitioners to think about disease diagnosis and treatment from multiple dimensions, trains general practice residents' general clinical thinking, improves the diagnosis and treatment level of PMR, so as to achieve the teaching purpose.

Keywords

• murtagh safe diagnostic strategy|general practice teaching clinic|general practice residents|polymyalgia rheumatic