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Diagnosis depends on a framework of clinical reasoning, or what is termed clinical decision-making. It has been described as a “pre-existing set of categories agreed upon by the medical profession to designate a specific condition.”
The importance of diagnosis in patient care is dependent on its accuracy, reliability, and timeliness, all of which make key contributions to the health outcome. The importance of diagnosis is only highlighted in the case of infectious disease since undiagnosed patients can spread the infection to others.
The diagnostic process
Diagnosis is the endpoint of a complex process centered on a patient, collaborating with both the patient and other sources of clinical information to reason backward as to the potential health issue causing the patient’s current condition.
Typically prompted by symptoms, the patient first engages with the healthcare system. This leads to one or more rounds of gathering, integrating, and interpreting information, ultimately arriving at a working diagnosis. Information may enter this loop at various times, altering the earlier hypothesis as other probabilities arise or are strengthened.
