Clinical Visual Assessment
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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
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2011
This paper illustrates an innovative visual approach (photovoice or photo-elicitation) to achieve fair process in clinical care for patients living with chronic health conditions, illuminate gaps in clinical knowledge, forge better therapeutic relationships, and identify patient-centered goals and possibilities for healing.
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Driving Simulation in the Clinic: Testing Visual Exploratory Behavior in Daily Life Activities in Patients with Visual Field Defects
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2012
Patients with visual deficits after stroke report about different constraints in daily life most likely due to variable compensatory strategies, which are difficult to differentiate in clinical routine. We present a clinical set-up which allows measurement of different compensatory head- and eye-movement-strategies and evaluating their effects on driving performance.
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Polar Histogram Visualization of Acute Stress Disorder Scale Scores for Comprehensive Clinical Assessment
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2024
This study introduces a novel polar histogram visualization method for analyzing Acute Stress Disorder Scale (ASDS) scores, focusing on elderly ICU caregivers. The technique displayed all 19 ASDS variables simultaneously, revealing distinct stress patterns between healthy controls and caregivers while demonstrating significant improvements post-intervention in hyperarousal and avoidance symptoms.
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Human Egg Maturity Assessment and Its Clinical Application
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Cited by 14 •
2019
We provide an outline of the clinical protocol for non-invasive assessment of human egg maturity using polarized light microscopy.
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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults
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Cited by 5 •
2014
This protocol is used to evaluate spatial and temporal gait variables of neurological/orthopedic patients and older persons by means of a recently-introduced floor-based photocell system.
FAQs
Separating description from interpretation helps preserve the difference between what is directly visible and what it may mean clinically. A practitioner can record posture, eye contact, facial expression, movement, grooming, or responsiveness before considering possible explanations. This distinction supports clearer communication, reduces premature conclusions, and allows observations to be evaluated alongside interviews, histories, and standardized measures.
The same visible behavior may carry different significance depending on the person’s social setting and immediate environment. Clinical visual assessment therefore considers interactions and responsiveness within context rather than treating isolated actions as self-explanatory. This approach helps practitioners identify meaningful changes in communication, social engagement, affect, arousal, or psychomotor activity without relying on appearance alone.
Changes may appear in affect, arousal, psychomotor activity, communication, or social engagement, as well as in posture, movement, facial expression, eye contact, grooming, and responsiveness. Observing several features together provides a broader behavioral characterization than focusing on one sign. These observations can support clinical understanding, but they remain indicators for further assessment rather than diagnostic conclusions.
Visual observations are most useful when integrated with an interview, relevant history, and standardized measures. Each source contributes a different perspective: observation captures visible behavior and interaction, while the other approaches provide additional information for understanding the person’s presentation. Combining these sources supports more informed screening, behavioral characterization, treatment planning, and monitoring than observation alone.
In behavioral health, practitioners can use this approach during screening, behavioral characterization, treatment planning, and monitoring. It may help identify visible changes in affect, arousal, psychomotor activity, communication, or social engagement across clinical encounters. Its value comes from contributing structured behavioral information to a broader decision-making process, rather than serving as an independent basis for diagnosis.
Visible behavior does not establish a diagnosis by itself. Appearance, movement, responsiveness, or interaction must be interpreted cautiously because clinical understanding requires additional information from interviews, histories, and standardized measures. Using multiple sources helps place observations in context and supports more appropriate decisions about screening, treatment planning, and monitoring while limiting conclusions based solely on what can be seen.