considered condition

considered health condition

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

Note 1 to entry: 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 to entry: 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 care investigation is supposed to get an answer to. The question formulated as a potential condition is a considered condition

Note 3 to entry: A considered condition remains considered until the associated observed conditions are changed or completed. Care investigation and/or care 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 care activities it is transformed into an excluded condition

Note 4 to entry: A working diagnosis is often identified in the clinical process as a summary after the planned care 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