But what to do with the rest of the world that continues to use the term diagnosis meaning something else?
Gerard Freriks +31 620347088 gfrer at luna.nl On 20 Aug 2012, at 16:30, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> and panic attacks/hyper ventilation. These were my inferences about the >> process inside the patient system. >>> Only one was true and had to found out via trial and error diagnostics >> and trial treatments. I fear that the best we can do in most circumstances >> (as GP) is to code 'Reasons for ..' and do not use the word diagnosis too >> often. >> >> Isn't that what we call 'differential diagnosis'? >> >> Anyhow. I agree that these DD or reasons for should be seperated and >> clearly distinctable from the 'final' diangosis, preferably based on facts >> and >> deduction. > > "final" diagnoses mainly exist with the field of pathology/the coroners > office. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120821/c9409790/attachment.html>
