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Apr 20, 2009 · Pattern recognition fit—symptoms and signs are compared to previous patterns or cases, and a disease is recognised when the actual pattern fits. This is the refinement strategy most commonly used by GPs (fig 2 ⇑). Its use relies on memory of known patterns, but no specific rule is used.
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Jan 26, 2016 · Diagnostic reasoning has received substantial attention in the literature, yet what we mean by “diagnosis” may vary. Diagnosis can align with assignment of a “label,” where a constellation of signs, symptoms, and test results is unified into a solution at a single point in time.
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It is predicated on the assumption that there is only one disease causing acute symptoms not because it is impossible that there are two, but because it is so unlikely that two independent diseases that cause similar symptoms would strike simultaneously.
Jan 27, 2021 · Generations of pediatricians have grouped signs and symptoms in the quest for a unifying diagnosis. Coupled with this approach, children grouped together under related diagnoses have received...
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The unifying diagnosis. In medical school we were taught to look for a unifying diagnosis, one that could explain all of the patient’s signs and symptoms, in preference to providing several explanations for the distress beeing presented.
Jan 20, 2022 · In medical practice, clinicians are encouraged to seek a unifying diagnosis (UD) that could explain all the patient's signs and symptoms in preference to providing several explanations for the distress being presented ( 1 ).
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Nov 4, 2013 · Signs are seen as reliable markers of disease, whereas symptoms often refer to subjective complaints. However, even signs may be located in a continuum between disease biomarker and medically unexplained symptoms (e.g. various degrees of cough and oedema).
