Medical diagnosis

Medical diagnosis

Subclass of	medical procedure, technique
Has effect	medical diagnosis
History of topic	history of medical diagnosis
Uses	public health surveillance, periodic health examination

Medical diagnosis (dem abbreviate am Dx, D_x, anaa D_s) be de process of determining wich disease anaa condition wey dey explain a person ein symptoms den signs. E be most often referred to as a diagnosis plus de medical context be implicit. De information dem require for a diagnosis be typically collected from a history den physical examination of de person wey dey seek medical care. Often, dem sanso dey do one anaa more diagnostic procedures, such as medical tests, during de process. Sam times de posthumous diagnosis be considered a kind of medical diagnosis.

Adverse effects

Diagnosis problems be de dominant cause of medical malpractice payments, wey dey account for 35% of total payments insyd a study of 25 years of data den 350,000 claims.

Overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis be de diagnosis of "disease" wey never go cause symptoms anaa death during a patient ein lifetime.

Errors

Most people go experience at least one diagnostic error insyd dema lifetime, according to a 2015 report by de National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Lag time

Wen dem dey make a medical diagnosis, a lag time be a delay in time til a step towards dem make diagnosis of a disease anaa condition.

Dem often dey bell long lag times "diagnostic odyssey".

Types

Sub-types of diagnoses dey include:

Clinical diagnosis

Laboratory diagnosis

Radiology diagnosis

Electrography diagnosis

Endoscopy diagnosis

Tissue diagnosis

Principal diagnosis

Admitting diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Diagnostic criteria

Prenatal diagnosis

Diagnosis of exclusion

Dual diagnosis

Self-diagnosis

Remote diagnosis

Nursing diagnosis

Computer-aided diagnosis

Overdiagnosis

Wastebasket diagnosis

Retrospective diagnosis