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Definition

potential health condition considered by a healthcare actor on the basis of one or more observed conditions

 

This is a concrete item and can be implemented directly

Term: considered condition; 
Synonym: considered health condition; 
Plural: considered conditions; 

Notes

NOTE 1 A request for care normally includes a health condition or symptom observed by the subject of care and also a question about what the reason for that symptom might be. It is the potential health condition in this question (the health condition behind the symptom) that is called a considered condition.

NOTE 2 A referral within a clinical process is normally motivated by one or several observed conditions and/or professionally assessed conditions. However the referral also normally includes a question that the healthcare investigation is supposed to get an answer to. The question formulated as a potential condition is a considered condition.

NOTE 3 A considered condition remains considered until the associated observed conditions are changed or completed. healthcare investigation and/or healthcare treatment result in new observations that can verify or not verify the (suspected) considered condition. When a considered condition is verified it is transformed into an observed condition and/or professionally assessed condition that also could be labelled as a working diagnosis. If a considered condition cannot be verified by relevant healthcare activities it is transformed into an excluded condition.

NOTE 4 A working diagnosis is often identified in the clinical process as a summary after the planned healthcare investigation are completed. A working diagnosis in this stage is often called a diagnosis. An excluded condition could correspondingly be called a negation of a working diagnosis.

Examples

EXAMPLES Diagnostic hypothesis, any candidate in a differential diagnosis set.

Diagrammatic representation

Simple graph - considered condition
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Required associations

a number of considered conditions is based on one or more observed conditions

Optional associations

Generalisations

                healthcare matter
            health issue
        health condition
    potential health condition
considered condition

Specialisations

considered condition
    working diagnosis
    excluded condition