considered condition

considered health condition

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 or care treatment can result in new observations that can verify or not verify the considered condition When a considered condition is verified it becomes an observed condition or professionally assessed condition that may be a working diagnosis If a considered condition is discounted 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