Medical findings
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Medical findings are the collective physical and psychological occurrences of patients surveyed by a medical doctor. The survey is composed of physical examinations by the doctor's senses and simple medical devices, which build clinical findings.
If necessary, the results are proofed by further
Definition
Using for example the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT), a finding is a Clinical, Laboratory or Molecular evidence (or absence of evidence) of a disease.
Types of findings
The documentation of medical findings can differ between:
- quantitative evidence, e.g. "the cholesterollevel is 220 mmol/L"
- qualitative evidence, e.g. "the consciousnessis clouded"
Out of a combination of these extracted medical findings, a doctor can deduce their
According to the nature of the finding they can be classified into:
- Clinical: When they are related to the patient's symptomsevolution
- Physiological: When they are related to an intermediate biological biomarker
- Pathological or histopathological: When they are related to the physical damage produced by the disease
Psychological findings would be more a
Findings can appear during a targeted medical test or unexpectedly during an unrelated exploration.
Findings and symptoms
Although the difference is not clear in everyday parlance, medical findings and symptoms are completely delineated: during the process of confirming a medical finding the empirical character (those that can be found) of the collected medical characteristics is brought out, highlighting symptom of an affliction.
Acquiring medical findings is one of the main duties of a doctor.
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