Diagnostic Reasoning.¶
Kassirer, J. P. (1989). Diagnostic Reasoning. Annals of Internal Medicine, 110(11), 893-900.
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Primes¶
- Preimage
- In forensic and diagnostic reasoning the preimage of a symptom is the set of conditions that can produce it: the differential diagnosis in medicine, the suspect list in forensics, the fault tree in engineering, with the hardness of the problem being exactly the cardinality of this preimage.
This sourceFrames diagnostic reasoning as generating and narrowing the set of conditions consistent with observed findings.
- In forensic and diagnostic reasoning the preimage of a symptom is the set of conditions that can produce it: the differential diagnosis in medicine, the suspect list in forensics, the fault tree in engineering, with the hardness of the problem being exactly the cardinality of this preimage.
- Residual Analysis
- A good clinician does not dismiss an unexplained symptom as noise; they treat it as the fingerprint of something unmodelled and fit the next-best hypothesis to that residual (a co-infection, a second condition, a drug interaction).
This sourceDescribes differential diagnosis as iterative hypothesis refinement driven by the findings a leading hypothesis fails to explain.
- A good clinician does not dismiss an unexplained symptom as noise; they treat it as the fingerprint of something unmodelled and fit the next-best hypothesis to that residual (a co-infection, a second condition, a drug interaction).
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