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Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of anything, either by process of elimination or other analytical methods. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with slightly different implementations on the application of logic and experience to determine the cause and effect relationships. Below are given as examples and tools used to identify the causes of symptoms and disorders, both physical and mental disorders.
General issues
- Clinical judgement (not diagnosis)
- Computer assisted diagnosis
- Comorbidity
- Diagnosis related groups
- Differential diagnosis
- Dual diagnosis
- Diagnosis related groups
- Differential diagnosis
- Dual diagnosis
- Labelling
- Medical diagnosis
- Measurement
- Misdiagnosis
- Psychodiagnosis
- Prognosis
- Research diagnostic criteria
- Retrospective diagnosis
- Severity (disorders)
In education
Methods used to contribute to a diagnosis in psychology and psychiatry
- Anatomically detailed dolls
- Cognitive assessment
- Computer assisted diagnosis
- Diagnosis classification
- Diagnosis codes
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Diagnostic Interview Schedule
- Drug usage screening
- Functional assessment
- Global clinical assessment tools such as the General health questionaire
- Geriatric assessment
- Intake interview
- International Classification of Diseases
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Pain measurement
- Patient history
- Psychological assessment
- Psychiatric assessment
- Screening
- Symptom checklists
- Transdiagnostic theory
In medicine
- Dexamethasone suppression test
- Echoencephalography
- Electroculography
- Electrocardiography
- Electroencephalography
- Electromyography
- Electronystagmography
- Electroplethysmography
- Electroretinography
- Encephalography
- General Health Questionnaire
- Genetic testing
- Geriatric assessment
- Health screening
- HIV testing
Logic
- Zebra (medical)
- Sutton's law
- Occam's razor
- Hickam's dictum
See also
- Bayesian probability
- Cognitive psychology of missed diagnosis
- Clinical psychology: Types of problem
- Organizational diagnostics
- Other approaches to defining what we do
- Working towards a new classification in clinical psychology
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