Science attempts to explain how different types of personalities manage stress and what stress-management style might mean for the health of highly competitive people.
Demographic information about a specific subset of patients can help physicians recognize conditions they do not expect to find in the larger population.
The WHO Clinical Staging System for HIV/AIDS allows physicians in resource-limited settings to make clinical decisions based on patient clinical features instead of laboratory tests.
People with mental illness or a degenerative mental disease have special protections under the law when entering into contracts or other binding documents.
Clinical decision making calls for use of both explicit and tacit knowledge despite evidence-based medicine's assumption that explicit information is sufficient.