On the use of positive test strategies when diagnosing mental disorders.

Background: Despite the adverse impact diagnostic errors can have, clinical interviewing and decision-making in psychiatric practice have received relatively little empirical attention. When diagnosing patients, clinicians tend to fall back on a specific (heuristic) rule of thumb, the positive test strategy, a confirmatory approach that increases the risk of confirmation bias.

Method And Results: A group of 83 clinical psychologists and psychiatrists was asked to give their diagnostic hypotheses about two vignettes.

Arthroscopic arthrolysis for posttraumatic elbow stiffness.

Background: Loss of motion of the elbow joint is a common finding after elbow trauma. Restoration of motion of the posttraumatic stiff elbow can be a difficult, time-consuming, and costly challenge. Arthroscopic capsular release of stiff elbows has recently been introduced as a safe but technically demanding technique.