Hypothesis generation

• Hypothesis generation:

  • ‘proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation’
• Hypothesis generation:

  • Competing interpretations clarified through further data collection and assessment/reassessment of management interventions
• Hypothesis generation:

  • Start immediately with patient encounter: referral, notes, observation in waiting room, introduction
• Hypothesis generation:

  • Hypotheses may be physical, psychological or socially related, work, attitudes, beliefs, functional, environmental
• Hypothesis generation