Other times, doctors may delay implementing new findings because they may be more swayed by their clinical impressions than by data from large studies.

My clinical impression is that it hasn't made much difference yet.

We avoid this reality because none of us like it, and prefer to defer to our clinical impressions!

Instead, growth charts are tools that contribute to forming an overall clinical impression for the child being measured.

This may account for the clinical impression that traumatic brain injuries cause accelerated fracture healing.

Doctors usually send samples to laboratories for tests to confirm their clinical impressions.

The problem was that the autopsy had failed to confirm her clinical impression.

The aim of this study was to verify a strong clinical impression that injecting drug misuse in Lothian has recently diminished.

However, despite examples of middle-class drug addicts and clinical impressions, epidemiological data do not support this idea.

This clinical impression is probably correct, he said, but the reason for the rise is the increased number of young women in the population.