Functional diagnosis - Yesterday's diagnosis

Japanese: 機能診断 - きのうしんだん
Functional diagnosis - Yesterday's diagnosis


[Four levels of disease diagnosis]
There are four levels of medical judgment (diagnosis) about a disease, and it is believed that only when all four levels are present can a comprehensive diagnosis be made and a reliable guide to treatment be obtained. These four levels are symptomatic diagnosis (or clinical diagnosis), pathoanatomical diagnosis, causal diagnosis, and functional diagnosis (or pathophysiological diagnosis). A symptomatic diagnosis is made by determining whether a diagnosis matches any previously known and described disease based on the patient's medical history and symptoms, and the doctor's senses (inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, etc.) and simple tools (thermometer, blood pressure gauge, stethoscope, etc.) (if there is no match, it is reported and described as a new disease). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "functional diagnosis" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[病気診断の四つのレベル]
 病気についての医学的な判断(診断)には四つのレベルがあり,その四つがそろって初めてまとまったものとなり,治療への指針を確実に得ることができると考えられている。その四つとは,症候論的診断(あるいは臨床的診断),病理解剖学的診断,原因診断,そして機能診断(あるいは病態生理学的診断)である。症候論的診断とは,患者の訴える病歴と症状,医師が自分の感覚(視診,触診,聴診,打診など)と簡単な道具(体温計や血圧計,聴診器など)を用いて得た情報から,これまでに知られて記載されている病気のどれに一致するかを判断する(もし一致するものがなければ,それは新しい病気として報告され記載される)。…

※「機能診断」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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